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

In 1862, the workmen in the famishing cotton industries of Lancashire were actually reduced to just about this minimum.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

To all my inquiries there was but one answer: “Don’t stay to care for the wounded now; the troops are famishing with thirst and are beginning to fall back.”

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.

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