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

At length they came into the mountains, where travel at night for famishing men was intolerably difficult.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William

The masses are famishing for knowledge, and will thank me for the portion of intellectual bread, small though it be, which I honestly share with them.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

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