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

I remembered then the famishing condition of myself and friends.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

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

We had also, at this period, a "saint" in the Exchequer, who studied Scripture for some purpose: the famishing people cried out for bread, and the pious Vansittart gave them stones!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne