famishing
Example Sentences
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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
She had recovered from the first shock caused by Carroll’s news, but though she could face the situation more calmly, she could find no comfort anywhere—Vane was lying helpless and famishing, in the frost-bound wilderness.
From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold
Late midnights and famishing morrows, in the gay hard days when we were endeavouring to climb the ladder of our Art; a succession of faces, a welter of experiences.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
Dwindling and dwarfed in all save wickedness, And knowledge, oft made pander unto ill, With learning gorged, for wisdom famishing, Man both a glutton and a starveling seemed.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.
