famish

Example Sentences

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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."

From Time Magazine Archive

We Mardians famish on the superficial strata of deposits; cracking our jaws on walnuts, filberts, cocoa-nuts, and clams.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

It requires nothing more of the Regicides than to famish some sort of excuse, some sort of colorable pretest, for our renewing the supplications of innocence at the feet of guilt.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

"It's famish, this fashion," muttered the elderly cynic.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

But, in the interim, she must starve and famish like a white mouse learning to dance.'

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various