famishment

IPA: fˈæmɪʃmʌnt

Examples of "famishment" in Sentences

And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.
We've got a fair chance o 'goin' un'er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o 'empty stomaks.
Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment, _ during a great portion of the year. "
Is Gastronomi, a system to measure the famishment of the driver to avoid the dangers of driving hunger that unbelievable?
On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment, during a great portion of the year. "
On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of _almost utter famishment_ during a great portion of the year. "
During the short passage to the coach house I had been trying to consider my course: but my state of famishment and the agitation into which I had been thrown had bereft me of all power of consecutive thought; so that when the gentleman called upon me, in no gentle tones, to give an account of myself, I stood like a stock fish before him.
The marriage of Eliza La Heu and John Mayrant was of a different quality; no paper pronounced it "up to date," or bestowed any other adjectival comments upon it; for, being solemnized in Kings Port, where such purely personal happenings are still held (by the St. Michael family, at any rate) to be no business of any one's save those immediately concerned, the event escaped the famishment of publicity.