famishing

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Famishing, shipwrecked or marooned, he fought with the big Pacific surf for rock-clinging mussels, and carried them up the sands to the dry flotsam of the spring tides.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

Famishing lions and tigers will not approach the camp-fire to seize their prey.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Famishing men cannot work, and soon the colonists began to weary of their labours.

From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Famishing with thirst, tired beyond expression, and burning with fever as well as the withering heat, we reached at last the bank of the Su-la-ho.

From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell

Famishing and toil-worn though they were they readily assented, and soon approached the Rishi with a costly oil that had been prepared by boiling it a hundred times.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan