famishment
Example Sentences
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Go on, Sir William Blunt: Pass briefly to the lady's famishment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
A miserable death is famishment; But what care I?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig
We’ve got a fair chance o’ goin’ un’er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o’ empty stomaks.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
