famishes

The holy man takes the farm into his own hands, and nearly famishes both the laborers and the master; till at length their feelings counteract their superstition, and the saint is in the end expelled in his turn.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

That system of labor which saps the health, and shortens life, and famishes intellect, needs, and must receive, great modification.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

That system of labor which saps the health, and shortens life, and famishes intellect, needs, and must receive, great modification.

On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes: Lecture I 1909

Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state, according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?

The Revolt of Islam 1901

Here, a sewing-woman famishes and freezes; there, mothers murder their children, that those spared may live upon the bread purchased with the burial allowances of the dead starveling; and at the next door young girls prostitute themselves for food.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

Could they listen to the plea of reason who had groaned under the calamities of a social state according to the provisions of which one man riots in luxury whilst another famishes for want of bread?

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

They may have hankered for love, fame, and wisdom, but what they hungered to be given was experience ” and both found that the giving famishes the craving.

That Old Identity Game Ricks, Christopher 1967