But if you doubt whether you should feed your child, you deserve to be hanged for murdering it, if you famish it.
And do you think you shall be discharged from all these duties, and allowed to be profane, or sensual, or to resist authority, or to famish your children, if you can but be blind enough to think that God would have it so?
And therefore, as they must not famish themselves by forbearing meat or drink, so their sorrows must not be such as may destroy their bodies (of which more anon).
Thou was't whelpt a Dogge, and thou shalt famish a Dogges death.
Some say, that Rauens foster forlorne children, The whil'st their owne birds famish in their nests: Oh be to me though thy hard hart say no, Nothing so kind but something pittifull Tamo.
Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand and rave and cry for food.
And we think he is appointed thereto by the bishops and priests, and also of the justices, so to famish us; and not only us of the said castle, but also all other prisoners in other prisons for the like cause to be also famished.
But he answering, only for Nisa's sake am I reduced to this misery, they began to beat him with such rage that they left him almost dead; and shutting the prison, they resolved to famish him to death.
Such is their filial piety, that they will often give the half of these pitiful wages to their parents, to relieve their necessities, preferring almost to famish themselves rather than see them want.
You are all resolved rather to die than to famish Shak.
Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand and rave and cry for food: If any one relieves or pities him, For the offence he dies.
My relations toward him echoed with the feelings I used to have for the reticent, omniscient boy of Abner's Court, and with the hoarse, studious young Talmudist with whom I would "famish in company.
And those the rogues that stole her, Left us to famish in the barren Islands.
I had as lief ye should famish me, as founder me: To be jaded to death, is only fit for a hackney.
For here is a fundamental right ad rem, and the heinousness of his crime that would famish another, rather than give him his own, or his due, doth take off the scandal and evil consequents of the manner of taking it.
When a child taketh meat from a cruel parent that would famish him, or a wife from such a cruel husband!
Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him stand and rave and cry for food: 180 If any one relieves or pities him, For the offence he dies.
With what face can we pretend that they who have not denied any one gratification to any one appetite have a right to plead poverty in order to famish their virtues and to put their duties on short allowance?
It requires nothing more of the Regicides than to famish some sort of excuse, some sort of colorable pretest, for our renewing the supplications of innocence at the feet of guilt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "famish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
