famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Unscrupulous as he is in the matter of idiotic jokes, I know him well enough to be sure that he wouldn't leave us here to famish.

From Stranded in Arcady by Lynde, Francis

With their scant water supply at a distance and unprotected they could not hold out long in a siege, but would soon be compelled either to fight, fly or famish.

From Arizona Sketches by Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa)

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 Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

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