famishing

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Towards the afternoon I felt famishing, and then my eyes fell upon the canary.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

He said we were famishing, whereupon the skipper lowered a boat, sending food and water to us.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

Now and then they killed a stray musk-ox and, like famishing creatures, men and dogs ate for once their fill.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.