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

I sit here babbling like a garrulous old woman while you must be famishing.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman

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

Supper was just ready, but there were only four plates on the table, and when I ventured to mention that Cotton waited repentant and famishing without, Sally regarded me stonily.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold