famishment

Example Sentences

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A miserable death is famishment; But what care I?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And there shall be earthquakes, in all quarters, and famishment, and troubles.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

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

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