famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
It never rains out of season, and were it not for the heavy night dews, the very birds would famish.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
C is the CORN-LAWS, that famish’d the poor; D is the DEBT, that will famish them more.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various
The gorging a royal kitchen may stint and famish the negotiations of a kingdom.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
