famishment

Example Sentences

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Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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