famish

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Deprive her of that, and you starve her as effectually as you famish a human being by abstraction of food.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, 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

"Well, donOt famish yourself on account of me."

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Fie on ambition! fie on myself; that have a sword, and yet am ready to famish!

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur