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)

Directly there came by a child, With toiling step, and vision wild, "Father," said she, with hunger dread, "We famish for the want of bread."

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf

Bennet, contained in the first volume of the Geological Society Transactions, may famish the inquisitive reader with a short summary of the principal appearances on which this opinion rests.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Switzerland could not afford to be a Kingdom,—the expense of a Court and Royal Family would famish half her people.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace