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

Three thousand cavalry passed the strong hold of Perot� in deplorable plight, while not more than two thousand disarmed and famishing infantry had returned towards their homes in the central regions of Mexico.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Mayer, Brantz

He was, indeed, almost famishing, and felt tempted to take almost any risk to procure something to eat.

From Held by Chinese Brigands by Strang, Herbert

Exhausted with fatigue, and famishing with hunger, the widow and her children here applied at a respectable farm-house, which stood a little way off the road, for relief.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander