famish

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He won't famish," said Rufe, "with the large supply of sauce which he keeps on hand!

From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

Sympathy cannot feast in a palace while the poor famish.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

The bereaved blood And emptied flesh in their most broken mood Fail not so wholly, famish not when thus Past honey keeps the starved lip covetous.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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