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

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

Let Descartes, and Polignac, and Reid, and Cudworth, et id omne genus, famish themselves in this desert; but ask it not of César Prévost!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

While living bodies famish and living eyes burn for the sight of beauty.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various