famishing

A dozen or more fell into the boat, and were eagerly seized and killed by the famishing crew.

Many of them are evidently sometimes in a famishing condition.

The abbat told her that her famishing state was known, and that hope of escape there was none.

I saw that he was famishing, so I restrained my curiosity till I had placed some rice and pork and Indian corn bread before him.

I want it as one wants water when one's famishing, and bread when one's starving.

He was wet, bedraggled, and as fierce as a famishing panther, but neither skill nor instinct guided him to anything.

Then they divided the meat, and set to work to devour it eagerly, for both were famishing.

These were Matebele, who, unable to approach Sebituane on the island of Loyela, had returned sick and famishing.

The acquisition of so much wealth fairly took his breath away, and for a moment he almost forgot that he was famishing.

A planter's boy sees a slave starved to famishing and then whipped to death.