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  • A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to capturing it.†   (source)
  • Silas was famished.†   (source)
  • I'm famished.†   (source)
  • You must be famished.†   (source)
  • The hot juices ran down her chin and dripped onto her cloak, but she was too famished to care.†   (source)
  • She realized suddenly how famished she was.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he's like my father and drinks the dole itself and that's why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.†   (source)
  • Famished but with no prospect of food, in a cramped room filled with strangers, mercifully, I quickly sank into the oblivion of sleep.†   (source)
  • In the morning he awakened famished, as if he hadn't eaten for a week.†   (source)
  • I'm famished, but I think I'll skip the beans we're having for dinner.†   (source)
  • The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast.†   (source)
  • I'm famished," he said.†   (source)
  • This totals six cups of food a day, but if he's acting famished please give him an extra cup or so.†   (source)
  • I m famished, Scatty said.†   (source)
  • I'm famished," he says.†   (source)
  • Well, you must be famished!†   (source)
  • We were going, going, going all day, so that I found myself completely famished and exhausted when the sun eventually set.†   (source)
  • "I'm tired"—my stomach rumbled—"and famished."†   (source)
  • And I'm famished.†   (source)
  • Worse yet, in their famished state, they might do something even more terrible.†   (source)
  • Perhaps even less: a famished stomach.†   (source)
  • You must be famished!†   (source)
  • He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.†   (source)
  • "fin famished—f-a-m-i —s —h-e-d." As Milo tried to think, there was an ear-shattering blast of trumpets, entirely off key-, and a page announced to the startled guests: "KING AZAZ THE UNABRIDGED."†   (source)
  • The smell reminded the men that they were famished—they went at the meat like wolves.†   (source)
  • There's just enough time to make the morning's first stop—a little offering of appreciation for Felicity's kindness last night—and then I'm off to breakfast, suddenly famished.†   (source)
  • But a wolf t'was indeed, and famished was he.†   (source)
  • They were pictures of tanks, of threatening fists, of houses destroyed, of corpses covered with bloodstained red-white-and-blue Czech flags, of young men on motorcycles racing full speed around the tanks and waving Czech flags on long staffs, of young girls in unbelievably short skirts provoking the miserable sexually famished Russian soldiers by kissing random passersby before their eyes.†   (source)
  • And you must be famished from your journey, poor creatures.†   (source)
  • And here, in one of the most impoverished, diseased, eroded, and famished regions of Haiti, there was this lovely walled citadel, Zanmi Lasante.†   (source)
  • Young Lord Rawdon described his famished troops as looking like skeletons.†   (source)
  • He was a gangling, gawky, feverish, famish-eyed brain.†   (source)
  • Though the hobbits ate, as only famished hobbits can eat, there was no lack.†   (source)
  • I'm famished.†   (source)
  • "He must be famished," said an apple-cheeked man with a strong Irish accent.†   (source)
  • Famished.†   (source)
  • I've been famished all day.†   (source)
  • Famished townspeople trudging home through the rain and early darkness were enraged by the piano music and the incredible aromas—frying pork chops, schnitzel, garlic, beer, coffee—that drifted out into the night air.†   (source)
  • What were warnings beside the renewal of famished embers lodged eternally in the heart of man.†   (source)
  • She was famished, and ordered a shish kebab with salad.†   (source)
  • Famished.†   (source)
  • We even got into a habit of making love toward the end of its cooking so that when we were done and spent and a little famished it stirred thick enough to ladle into deep bowls and eat at the foot of the bed.†   (source)
  • "Well," Henry said, "I'm famished.†   (source)
  • We were bushed, famished, and most of all thirsty.†   (source)
  • Lewis Powell, starved and famished after three days of sleeping in the woods, instantly realizes he has made a grave error.†   (source)
  • Goode was at the counsel table, seeming as happy as a hungry man at a church supper as he looked around at a crowd that seemed famished to witness this contest.†   (source)
  • It was with a keen, famished regret that I watched the last inanimate light of the sun feather the edges of the horizon.†   (source)
  • I was famished.†   (source)
  • I'm absolutely famished.†   (source)
  • KELLER [HASTILY]: Well, now Couldn't say the same for my part, I'm famished.†   (source)
  • Tongue-tied, I looked at her with famished senses.†   (source)
  • The peasants are in rags and famished.†   (source)
  • He leaned against the cabin wall, uncorked the bottle, wrapped his mouth over its mouth as ravenously as a famished baby takes the nipple, and tilted straight up.†   (source)
  • After weeks of feeling too worried to eat, I'm famished.†   (source)
  • When a famished prisoner tried to get food from civilians, the Bird broke his jaw.†   (source)
  • I feel a bit better, able to sit up without getting too dizzy, and I'm absolutely famished.†   (source)
  • As the famished men swarmed onto the pile, Japanese photographers circled, snapping photos.†   (source)
  • Something bigger drew my worry: the creeping cold in my own famished heart, emptiness expanding.†   (source)
  • Eyes firmly closed, Daddy is not famished for affection, perverted or otherwise.†   (source)
  • In her famished condition, she found the odor nauseating.†   (source)
  • And as I've had nothing but toast, I'm famished.†   (source)
  • Chilled to the bone, our throats parched, famished, out of breath, we pressed on.†   (source)
  • Famished, I wolf down the sweet, creamy dessert as if I expect to die in my sleep.†   (source)
  • He wet his lips again, suddenly famished.†   (source)
  • Before I left you those months ago, you were famished at every turn.†   (source)
  • If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.†   (source)
  • He was famished.†   (source)
  • We, who'd had nothing but two spoonfuls of hot cereal for breakfast and were absolutely famished; we, who get nothing but halfcooked spinach (for the vitamins!)†   (source)
  • She tells herself to save the bread, but she is famished and the loaf is getting stale, and before she knows it, she has finished it.†   (source)
  • We'll all have new boots and coats to keep off the rain so we won't be coming home from school famished.†   (source)
  • "He's famished," she reported.†   (source)
  • You must be famished.†   (source)
  • A famishing silence.†   (source)
  • It's like being home again, when they bring in the hopelessly mangled person from the mine explosion, or the woman in her third day of labor, or the famished child struggling against pneumonia and my mother and Prim, they wear that same look on their faces.†   (source)
  • On our many visits to Dr. Jay before leaving Florida, Jenny and I would voice the same concerns: We were feeding him tremendous amounts of food, but still he was so much thinner than most Labs, and he always appeared famished, even immediately after wolfing down a bucket of kibble that looked like it was meant for a draft horse.†   (source)
  • When they woke on Saturday morning, they were famished, but with the power out and the storm slowly winding down, Paul brought the cooler up to the room and they ate in the comfort of bed, alternately laughing and being serious, teasing each other or staying silent, savoring each other and the moment.†   (source)
  • The wolves were as famished as he was, gaunt and cold and hungry, and the prey ...two men and a woman, a babe in arms, fleeing from defeat to death.†   (source)
  • Surely you are famished?†   (source)
  • He was famished but not yet so famished as to eat flesh flung to him by an Orc, the flesh of he dared not guess what creature.†   (source)
  • The stories were set in the slums of Lima, Peru, in the prisons of post-Soviet Siberia, in the famished and deforested central plateau of Haiti.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the middle of the evening that I stopped, when it occurred to me that I should at least have a snack, so that I wouldn't toss in my sleep or wake up famished.†   (source)
  • For a moment he might have paused to consider Gollum, a tiny figure sprawling on the ground: there perhaps lay the famished skeleton of some child of Men, its ragged garment still clinging to it, its long arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin: no flesh worth a peck.†   (source)
  • By early afternoon Paul would still be seeing patients, and famished herself, she'd go to his office in the clinic.†   (source)
  • The large band of famished people slowly moved away, leaving the two women sitting in the same stunned position on their piled spruce boughs.†   (source)
  • No, I'm not famished for revenge.†   (source)
  • I later thought that at that moment, unknown to all of us, some power unknown to any of us, some arbiter of violence, was studying us surreptitiously, was opening up the barracks to the outside world, and all the beasts and centaurs and clumsy leviathans of that world, monster-eyed, deadly, impassioned, and famished for a chance to make a game of us, rushed invisibly to the center of the quadrangle for a glimpse of us, the four boys secretly in love with each other.†   (source)
  • I'm famished.†   (source)
  • Exhausted by her lack of sleep, shivering from the cold that stole into the tower cell each night, feverish and famished by turns, Cersei came at last to know she must confess.†   (source)
  • I am famished, after all.†   (source)
  • I'm famished.†   (source)
  • So they'd have to spread facsimiles of the medical complex in Cange throughout the vast, mountainous, famished Département du Centre, and if they were lucky and frugal, $14 million would get them started.†   (source)
  • He looks fair famished.†   (source)
  • He must be famished.†   (source)
  • He was famished, which always made for a better hunt, but it also increased the temptation to feed off the hunted during his cutting sessions.†   (source)
  • For some reason, he was famished.†   (source)
  • On the train, which was thronged with beach-famished New Yorkers carrying huge bloated inner tubes and squalling infants, we managed to find a seat where we could loll three abreast and munch at our humble but agreeable fare.†   (source)
  • All these acts of contrition give too much importance to various infirmities of the flesh and to whether it is fat or famished-it's repulsive.†   (source)
  • Like a strip of film run at antic jerky speed through the projector, she saw that morning's mad charade, saw Wilhelmine's mop of flaming hair draw back from her groin, the famished damp lips parted in a petrified perfect 0, eyes sparkling with terror; looking at the revulsion in Hoss's face, thinking of the housekeeper, she felt herself begin to suppress either a scream or a peal of laughter.†   (source)
  • I got up then and watched her go, transfixed; I mean it when I say that no chaste and famished grail-tormented Christian knight could have gazed with more slack-jawed admiration at the object of his quest than I did at my first glimpse of Sophie's bouncing behind—a delectable upside-down valentine.†   (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)
  • When he raised the Host he could imagine the faces lifted like famished dogs.†   (source)
  • In a few hours we shall all be famished.†   (source)
  • I pick my way over broken glass, among blistered tiles, and see only vile and famished faces.†   (source)
  • But in the meantime we are famished with hunger.†   (source)
  • Nobody gets up early and when they do they"re almost famished."†   (source)
  • I lay in my room and read, feeding on print and pages like a famished man.†   (source)
  • We are worn and famished after our long road and we have sick comrades.†   (source)
  • I am famished for water.†   (source)
  • There's not enough for us as it is and if there are two or three famished soldiers out there, none of us will even get a taste," said Scarlett.†   (source)
  • Once he walked, dragging one foot after another in his famished weakness, to the temple of the earth, and deliberately he spat upon the face of the small, imperturbable god who sat there with his goddess.†   (source)
  • His body drank in her great light as a famished castaway the rain: he closed his eyes and let the great light bathe him, and when he opened them again, he saw that her own were luminous and wet.†   (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)
  • At length, standing outside the group the very figure of a famished wolfhound (Lily got up off the grass and stood looking at the steps, at the window, where she had seen him), he would say her name, once only, for all the world like a wolf barking in the snow, but still she held back; and he would say it once more, and this time something in the tone would rouse her, and she would go to him, leaving them all of a sudden, and they would walk off together among the pear trees, the cabbages, and the raspberry beds.†   (source)
  • And standing on the steps of the commissary is a girl with yellow hair hanging in two heavy braids and with large blue eyes and with the hint of a delicate, famished hollow in each cheek.†   (source)
  • In 1820 a Greek trader, accompanied by sick and famished servants, was found dying at the topmost ridge of the pass.†   (source)
  • He had scarcely put the burden down before a famished, wolfish dog hovered almost at once behind him, so famished that although he took up a small stone and threw it and hit its lean flank with a thud, the animal would not stir away more than a few feet.†   (source)
  • And the woman with the pale hair and the blue eyes and the famished cheeks leaned over me and kissed me good night and left the sweet smell in the dark after the light was out.†   (source)
  • At another time, they were traversing a great plain, and were famished for water and almost spent; a young horseman overtook them and gave them three ripe pomegranates, then galloped away.†   (source)
  • He tried to think of his child with shame, but he could only think of her with a kind of famished love — what would become of her?†   (source)
  • He had a famished and a savage look like a dog that has been chained and forgotten in a kennel for a week.†   (source)
  • His mother didn't say anything for a minute, making a sharp, bright clicking on the pavement with her heels as she walked along, holding her small shoulders trimly back, carrying her famished-cheeked, blue-eyed, absolutely innocent face slightly lifted to the pulsing sunset world of April like a very expensive present the world ought to be glad even to have a look at.†   (source)
  • Upon the doorsteps lay cowering a few dingy shapes of men and women who gazed, famished, upon the closed and barred gate, and when Wang Lung passed with his miserable little procession one cried out in a cracked voice, "The hearts of these rich are hard like the hearts of the gods.†   (source)
  • Which is what you can read in the little tracts written and handed out on the street corners by the fat, grubby, dandruff-sprinkled old man, with the metal-rimmed spectacles, who used to be the Scholarly Attorney and who married the girl with the gold braids and the clear, famished-looking cheeks, up in Arkansas.†   (source)
  • And as family after family finished its store in the small village and spent its last coin in the scanty markets of the town, and the winds of winter came down from the desert, cold as a knife of steel and dry and barren, the hearts of the villagers grew distraught with their own hunger and with the hunger of their pinched wives and crying children, and when Wang Lung's uncle shivered about the streets like a lean dog and whispered from his famished lips, "There is one who has food—there is one whose children are fat, still," the men took up poles and went one night to the house of Wang Lung and beat upon the door.†   (source)
  • The firelight defined her small, poised features, one side bright, one side in shadow, and emphasized the slight, famished, haunting hollow beneath the cheekbones (I always figured, after I got old enough to do any kind of figuring, that it was that—the hollow beneath the cheekbone—that got them) and the careful swooping lift of her piled-up hair.†   (source)
  • It was not the famish-cheeked, glowing face that, back in those years, had looked up eagerly and desperately to the hawk-headed, hot-eyed man in alleys of myrtle or in secret pine groves or in shuttered rooms.†   (source)
  • "No," I said, and sitting there in the motionless swing on the dark gallery, I told her what there was to tell about the pale-haired and famish-cheeked girl who had come down from Arkansas, and tried to tell her what my mother had finally given back to me.†   (source)
  • No doubt that was why he had not married the famish-cheeked girl, why he had not gone to his friend the Scholarly Attorney and told him, "I love your wife," or why, after the husband had learned the truth, as he must have done to make him walk out of the house and away to all the years in the slum garrets, he had not then married her.†   (source)
  • After weeks on the ocean, the Shimerdas were famished for fruit.†   (source)
  • By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famished.†   (source)
  • The weary time dragged on; they slept again, and awoke famished and woe-stricken.†   (source)
  • Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger.†   (source)
  • And they ate like famished children that had been lost in the woods.†   (source)
  • I was famished, but Maud tried vainly to get me to eat.†   (source)
  • On the instant a score of the famished brutes were scrambling for the bread and bacon.†   (source)
  • ... ROXANE: But your camp air is keen; I myself am famished.†   (source)
  • The wild wave of famished beasts rolled back before them, and Buck shook himself free.†   (source)
  • Then did He create men; but they have eaten like famished wolves!†   (source)
  • It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.†   (source)
  • "Be seated," he told me, "and eat like the famished man you must be."†   (source)
  • The cannon will warn every one to refuse shelter to a man wandering about naked and famished.†   (source)
  • A man had better sleep without his scalp, than famish in the midst of plenty.†   (source)
  • As if long famishing for something to copy, he seemed to gorge himself on my documents.†   (source)
  • I eat like a famished ogre; it's the sea air.†   (source)
  • Then he went to his room and bathed himself and changed his clothes, afterward presenting himself at the supper-table to eat like one famished.†   (source)
  • This young wolf had attained his full size; and, considering the weak and famished condition of the pack, he possessed more than the average vigour and spirit.†   (source)
  • This was indeed the Egypt of the Confederacy,—the rich granary whence potatoes and corn and cotton poured out to the famished and ragged Confederate troops as they battled for a cause lost long before 1861.†   (source)
  • We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.†   (source)
  • Everything, thanks, honest friend, and as I am famished and dead with fatigue, I pray you see to the rooms.†   (source)
  • There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground.†   (source)
  • With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.†   (source)
  • He described how he labored with her and convinced her; and how she almost died for joy when she had groped to where she actually saw the blue speck of daylight; how he pushed his way out at the hole and then helped her out; how they sat there and cried for gladness; how some men came along in a skiff and Tom hailed them and told them their situation and their famished condition; how the men didn't believe the wild tale at first, "because," said they, "you are five miles down the river below the valley the cave is in" —then took them aboard, rowed to a house, gave them supper, made them rest till two or three hours after dark and then brought them home.†   (source)
  • FIRST POET: See how this gingerbread woos the famished rhymer with its almond eyes, and its eyebrows of angelica!†   (source)
  • A tall grim clock upon the stairs, with long lean hands and famished face, ticked in cautious whispers; and when it struck the time, in thin and piping sounds, like an old man's voice, rattled, as if it were pinched with hunger.†   (source)
  • So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.†   (source)
  • And you, my gentle one, you, my kind boy, you too have known how to give a famished woman an onion to-day.†   (source)
  • From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.†   (source)
  • Nightfall found him leg-weary, half-famished, and his desire as far from accomplishment as ever; so he supped at the Tabard Inn and went to bed, resolved to make an early start in the morning, and give the town an exhaustive search.†   (source)
  • It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad.†   (source)
  • When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from thrashing around, famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of the animals; and crippled with rheumatism.†   (source)
  • To drive away their game is to deprive them of the means of existence, as effectually as if the fields of our agriculturists were stricken with barrenness; and they are reduced, like famished wolves, to prowl through the forsaken woods in quest of prey.†   (source)
  • The efforts of Agafea Mihalovna and the cook, that the dinner should be particularly good, only ended in the two famished friends attacking the preliminary course, eating a great deal of bread and butter, salt goose and salted mushrooms, and in Levin's finally ordering the soup to be served without the accompaniment of little pies, with which the cook had particularly meant to impress their visitor.†   (source)
  • I have known thee to leave fragments enough behind thee, when thou hast headed a night party on the lake, to feed a dozen famishing families.†   (source)
  • 'The nephew, being, as the lucid Madame Flintwinch has remarked, a poor devil who has had everything but his orphan life frightened and famished out of him—the nephew abases his head, and makes response: "My uncle, it is to you to command.†   (source)
  • do, where to go, or where to stay,—perfectly helpless both as to the means of defence and means of escape,—in the midst of plenty, yet suffering the terrible gnawings of hunger,—in the midst of houses, yet having no home,—among fellow-men, yet feeling as if in the midst of wild beasts, whose greediness to swallow up the trembling and half-famished fugitive is only equalled by that with which the monsters of the deep swallow up the helpless fish upon which they subsist,—I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation,—the situation in which I was placed,—then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarre†   (source)
  • I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body.†   (source)
  • Mr. Flint carried him over the plantation to show him the results of labor performed by men and women who were unpaid, miserably clothed, and half famished.†   (source)
  • You must be famished.†   (source)
  • The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.†   (source)
  • The blind man sank down on his haunches, with his head thrown back, whilst he rolled his greenish eyes, lolled out his tongue, and rubbed his stomach with both hands as he uttered a kind of hollow yell like a famished dog.†   (source)
  • One might have thought there was in that cellar one of those famished ogres—the gigantic heroes of popular legends, into whose cavern nobody could force their way with impunity.†   (source)
  • "Who's there?" cried the learned man, in the gracious tone of a famished dog, disturbed over his bone.†   (source)
  • The next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, and the sooner he did so the better.†   (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)
  • An Academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones.†   (source)
  • But I always woke and found it an empty mockery; and I was desolate and abandoned — my life dark, lonely, hopeless — my soul athirst and forbidden to drink — my heart famished and never to be fed.†   (source)
  • I have seen many a stout man, bending under the load of the bag of meal which he was carrying from the mills of the Mohawk, through the rugged passes of these mountains, to feed his half-famished children, with a heart so light, as he approached his hut, that the thirty miles he had passed seemed nothing.†   (source)
  • I paused, and stood over that cowering lad a whole minute in awful silence; then, in a voice deep, measured, charged with doom, I began, and rose by dramatically graded stages to my colossal climax, which I delivered in as sublime and noble a way as ever I did such a thing in my life: "Go back and tell the king that at that hour I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine again; the fruits of the earth shall rot for lack of light and warmth, and the peoples of the earth shall famish and die, to the last man!"†   (source)
  • When water is spilled on dry ground both the dry ground and the water disappear and mud results; and in the same way the entry of the famished army into the rich and deserted city resulted in fires and looting and the destruction of both the army and the wealthy city.†   (source)
  • He got up, lame, stiff, and half famished, washed himself in the river, stayed his stomach with a pint or two of water, and trudged off toward Westminster, grumbling at himself for having wasted so much time.†   (source)
  • And she began to pace up and down with long strides before the grating of her window, her hair dishevelled, her eyes flashing, with her shoulder striking against the wall, with the wild air of a female wolf in a cage, who has long been famished, and who feels the hour for her repast drawing near.†   (source)
  • A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers and packages.†   (source)
  • From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their children, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.†   (source)
  • Is she ill, or only famished?†   (source)
  • There was at Faverolles, not far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks.†   (source)
  • Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt, famished, ferocious prairie-wolves ran howling after the sledge.†   (source)
  • We feasted that evening as on nectar and ambrosia; and not the least delight of the entertainment was the smile of gratification with which our hostess regarded us, as we satisfied our famished appetites on the delicate fare she liberally supplied.†   (source)
  • Famished, I think.†   (source)
  • The famished spearhead, driven hard, passed through his chest, and down headfirst he sprawled.†   (source)
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