famishing
Example Sentences
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Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
To all my inquiries there was but one answer: “Don’t stay to care for the wounded now; the troops are famishing with thirst and are beginning to fall back.”
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
He said we were famishing, whereupon the skipper lowered a boat, sending food and water to us.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
Towards the afternoon I felt famishing, and then my eyes fell upon the canary.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
