famish
Example Sentences
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The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that."
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's famish, this fashion," muttered the elderly cynic.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
The rag refers to the flag, and the famish to the bad cuisine.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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)
