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

Now and then they killed a stray musk-ox and, like famishing creatures, men and dogs ate for once their fill.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

He said we were famishing, whereupon the skipper lowered a boat, sending food and water to us.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

Is not d�jeuner the most important meal in France--now as in the past; and is it not deliberately fiendish to place famishing humanity in a dining-hall without the necessary and expected adjuncts?

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis