We were all so famished that we took no heed of the noisomeness of the ration.
As we were all famished and parched there was a brisk trade.
I said I was famished and he explained the situation to the officer.
I go home every day to my late dinner, absolutely famished and face-sick.
To conclude, no creature is so craving after applause, and so starved and famished for it, as an author: none so pitiful, and so little pitied.
In a corner of Wilson's tent was a large quantity of candied sugar--several pounds; and so famished was I that I quickly devoured the lot.
When night came, the same number of hands were busy cooking and transferring with alarming celerity such steaming food as was available from the different fires to the mouths of the famished coolies.
I'll be your knave in this, your rascal; I take it, a knave is better than a starveling, a rascal is choicer company than a famished man.
Here they found grass abundant, fire-wood plentiful, and from an Indian village they obtained salmon trout, a feast to the famished men.
Only the tired, famished traveler in a strange land can realize how glad we were that the day's journey was finally at an end.
Certain kinds of worms, the old chroniclers tell us, buried themselves in the flesh of the exhausted and half-famished men and caused them untold agony.
The famished children, white and black, were crying for food.
The hopelessness of any such venture was apparent, even to famished men, and the propositions went no farther than inflammatory talk.
The narrow defile to the dispensary bar was choked with young and old of both sexes, struggling forward with their rusty tin and iron vessels for soup, some of them upon all fours, like famished beasts.
No words can describe this peculiar appearance of thefamished children.
In Lorraine, the famished nuns quitted their convents and became mendicants: the poor creatures gave themselves up to be dishonoured for the sake of a morsel of bread.
With such purpose, he artfully worked upon the city through the curates who, distributing bread, soup, and every other kind of alms, carried along with them the famished masses.
Soldiers," he told them, "you are famished and nearly naked.
This took the form of exacting from the neighbouring princes money, supplies and objects of art, and the once famished Army of Italy revelled in its opportunity.
The warmth of the liquid put new life into the famished Indian youth.
From this ravenous propensity, for he eat his food like a famished wolf, he had obtained the singular name of "Wittals.
Chattering likefamished sparrows, their voices sharp with eagerness, the women and children fell hastily upon the remnants their men had left.
He was as famishedfor knowledge as he was for food.
Carson followed at his heels and, at the heels of the American, straggled like so manyfamished wolves, the men of the cuadrilla and the serranos of the pueblo.
Weakly the famished men reached for their weapons; but he smiled with friendliness and commiseration, and sat down among them.
I would make you hunger for me like a famished wolf, I would make your blood race and burn!
They were still too low in the sierras to come across the tracks of snow-capering wild ibex and thus appease their famished stomachs.
His half-famished sentinels gazed from the watch-towers of the castle all around, looking for some cloud of distant dust, or weapon glancing in the sun, which might denote the approach of friends coming to their rescue.
The famished victim of a mysterious sentence stretches out his hand to the viands which his own industry has placed before his eyes, but no sooner are they touched than they fly.
He states that one of his carriage horses having been killed by accident, it was surrounded by "fifty or sixty famished cottagers, struggling desperately to obtain a morsel of flesh for themselves and their children.
There are other famished countries--Hungary and Poland.
There would be fighting, probably to the east of Poland, where the Monarchists were marching in a forlorn attempt to defeat the famished hordes.
It was as though they were fleeing before a drive--the tremendous drive of a famished nation.
He pushed away his plate and sat staring at his stepbrother, who presently fell to at the bacon and eggs like a famished wolf.
As for the bulls, as many of them as were shot served as food there and then for the half-famished pirates, for the buccaneers were never more at home than in the slaughter of cattle.
One small stick warmed the kettle; and the famished men were soon drinking lukewarm cocoa.
Permit me to wipe the tears from the dark cheek of the mother, and to take a crumb of bread from your plenteous store to put in the mouth of the famished child.
He paid no respect to aged people; he took the bison's meat from his father's famished mouth, and knocked the gourd of water from the lips of his thirsty mother.
The father could deny nothing to his beloved daughter, and, besides, the little boy pleaded for the famished Pequods also, and he yielded.
He reached the scarred bole from which the famished lion had devoured the bark and even torn pieces of the wood itself and yet Numa had not appeared.
