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extremely hungry
- 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.Chapters 52-54 — The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (68% in)
There are no more uses of "famished" in Moby Dick.
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