Exhausted with fatigue, and famishing with hunger, the widow and her children here applied at a respectable farm-house, which stood a little way off the road, for relief.
When the famishingfamily had satisfied the cravings of hunger, the farmer, whose name was Blackadder, inquired, but in the most delicate manner possible, into the history of the widow.
I am sure, that to let a famishing body see meat and give him none of it, is a double pain.
She was a poor, pallid, little thing, that scarcely seemed to have strength to utter her low moan of pain, as she lay famishing for the nourishment which the now starved mother was unable to supply.
He had not the trite excuse of thousands of worthless husbands who are neglecting their homes and spending their money in the groggery, while their families are existing in squalor and famishingfor bread.
Apart from these two plants, the two Crioceres refuse absolutely everything, even when in July they come up from the earth with the famishing stomachs which the long fast of the metamorphosis has given them.
They were not slow in profiling by the circumstance, and Hernando Pizarro took advantage of the temporary absence to send out foraging parties to scour the country, and bring back supplies to his famishing soldiers.
Unable longer to endure this suspense, or, indeed, to maintain themselves in their present quarters, Gonzalo and his famishing followers now determined to proceed towards the junction of the rivers.
These they now gladly killed, but their miserable carcasses furnished a lean banquet for the famishing travellers; and, when these were gone, they had only such herbs and dangerous roots as they could gather in the forest.
The famishing people of Orleans received Joan of Arc with enthusiastic acclamations and blazing torches.
What forces these peasants, taken only yesterday from the plow and dressed in ugly and unseemly costumes with blue collars and gilt buttons, to go with guns and sabers and murder their famishing fathers and brothers?
They all know that they are going to torture, perhaps to kill, their famishing fellow-creatures, and that they must set to work within an hour.
Death by Indians, famishing for want of water, etc.
Come, ye famishing souls, and take, without money and without price.
Here is a poor famishing fellow, who looks with eager eyes at the savoury mess.
Warde Hollister stopped up his ears in an agony of torture while a dozenfamishing boys flopped this way and that in attitudes of suffering despair.
To this enchanted isle would stroll dance-weary couples and famishing scouts to regale themselves in this dim, detached, earthly paradise.
A famishing man has never yet been hung for stealing to sustain life.
A long, sweet kiss and gentle adieu, in which there was love enough to feast even her long-famishing soul, and he was gone.
Eighty-five thousand sick, wounded and famishing French soldiers entered Switzerland, and were cared for by the Central Committee at Berne.
Death-pallid mothers, lying with glazing eyes, and a famishing babe clutching at a milkless breast.
The hollows were mostly gone from his cheeks, and his eyes no longer had the fierce, questing look of the famishing wild animal in search of prey.
He was wet, bedraggled, and as fierce as a famishing panther, but neither skill nor instinct guided him to anything.
The first rations were doled out with careful hand, lest harm should come to the famishing through overeating, still, the rescuers administered sufficient to satisfy the fiercest cravings and to give strength for the prospective journey.
Patrick Dolan, who had come away from camp that his famishing friends might prolong their lives by means of the small stock of food which he had to leave!
All who could walk did so, mothers carrying their babes in their arms, and fathers with weaklings across their shoulders moved slowly as they urged the famishingcattle forward.
Food is carried in abundance to the famishing thousands.
A famishing multitude was thus unexpectedly cast upon the bounty of our Lord.
Deliver Portugal, instead of famishing it," said they.
Famishing wretches, soldiers, and those of the camp-followers who still remained, all rushed upon the provision- stores.
And I will now venture to say that famishing men never watched the movements of a coffee pot with more anxiety than we did on this occasion.
But as we had continued to give to party after party, when they would come to us to represent their famishing condition, the time at length arrived when we had nothing to give.
I may have a famishing army round me before night, and how am I to feed them all?
Old Konga seized a stick and tried to beat them off, while Marileha stood behind her imploring her old friends to remember her famishing babes.
He was forced to accept a loaf from Rousseau for his famishing family, and small sums with which he was subsidised by Diaz.
Millions upon millions are famishing for the bread and water of life.
Frequently, I wondered whether Father Holland would find us alive in the spring, and I sometimes feared ours would be the fate of Athabasca traders whose bodies satisfied the hunger of famishing Crees.
This task kept me busy till daybreak, for the filling capacity of a famishing Indian may not be likened to any other hungry thing on earth without doing the red man grave injustice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "famishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: empty; famished; fasting; hungering; hungry; ravenous; starved; unfilled; voracious; wolfish
