famishing
Example Sentences
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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
Wandering among forests, bleak, cheerless, and choked with snow, now famishing with want, now cloyed355 with repletion, they passed the dull, cold winter.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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.
It's not that heavy, so to say," acknowledged the surly boy; "it's that I be famishing for my tea.
From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
