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  • It was second period, and just like her mother had predicted, she was famished.  (source)
  • Kevin, now famished, wanted to go to McDonald's again, but she drew the line and suggested that they have breakfast at the Waffle House across the street.  (source)
  • It was at the evening recount on their return through the gates that the prisoners, freezing and famished, found the icy wind hardest to bear.  (source)
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  • JACQUES and ROBERTA, famished, dive into the potatoes.  (source)
    famished = extremely hungry
  • He was a gangling, gawky, feverish, famish-eyed brain.†  (source)
  • Then there had been Archbishops nicknamed "Skin-villain," and churches used as forts—with trenches in the graveyards among the bones—and price-lists for fining murderers, and bodies of the excommunicated lying unburied, and famishing peasants eating grass or tree-bark or one another.†  (source)
  • Enough of these our court already grace; Of giant stomach, and of famish'd face.†  (source)
  • Nonetheless, she was perplexed and all but engulfed by his electric fever (an intense feeling of famishment stabbed her too) and she reached out her hands in a vain, fluttering effort to quiet him down.†  (source)
  • We are worn and famished after our long road and we have sick comrades.  (source)
  • It was slep in the night afore last by the Honorable Capting Famish, of the Fiftieth Dragoons, whose Mar took him out, after a fortnight, jest to punish him, she said.†  (source)
  • We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.†  (source)
  • must fall, And stain the pavement of my regal hall; Where famish'd dogs, late guardians of my door, Shall lick their mangled master's spatter'd gore.†  (source)
  • The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished.  (source)
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