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
These tools of the secretary of state told the famishing multitudes, that if they pleased to enjoy happiness and plenty, together with civil liberty, they had now an opportunity of accomplishing their most earnest wishes.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
It's not that heavy, so to say," acknowledged the surly boy; "it's that I be famishing for my tea.
From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
I comprehended that there is more nourishment for famishing humanity in the most watery and insipid broth of Christian charity than in the dry and musty spider-web of the Hegelian philosophy.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
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