famishing

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Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Mahatma: "You have my blessing and prayer in terms of famishing and naked India."

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a dead silence in the room for some minutes, and then Dr Vinnicombe exclaimed— “Come, Churchwarden, here are Michael Ross and I famishing for a game at whist.”

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

The moisture only extends a few yards, gradually diminishing till the trickling streamlet is lost in the famishing soil.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

Late midnights and famishing morrows, in the gay hard days when we were endeavouring to climb the ladder of our Art; a succession of faces, a welter of experiences.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger