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Trivedy said 5000 famished people had congregated next to a church in the coastal town of Nova Mambone.
Clearly, turning a blind eye whenever the permanently famished Donald surreptitiously dipped into the tin of dog biscuits brought its reward.
The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge.
One peer at least tied a capon in his handkerchief and tossed it up to his famished family.
What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop.
I wolfed it, famished, while cats scratched at gaps in the floorboards and invisible mice.
We were out of breath, underdressed and famished, with at least two hours to kill before our key-bearing neighbours would be home.
The luluing of the famished myall mingled with the howl of the hunting dingo.
Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses.
In both cases, you probably become famished and are more likely to make poor food choices and overindulge, says Walls.
I was still wondering what famished them, since the reason for their leanness, and their skin's sad scurf, was not obvious yet.
The first few minutes were spent concentrating on the food, for the women were famished.
Food riots broke out, and as unemployment reached 40 percent, famished angry people wandered the streets.
Sacrifices always lessened his appetite, but he had not eaten since morning, and he was considerably famished.
The rope dug into her flesh, her stomach, causing her to become further aware of how famished she was.
He beat at them continually with his whip, but they were so famished that they took no notice whatever.
It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
Jacob and his brother Esau were pretty tight-knit, until one day Esau returns from a long trip, famished.
One day Esau returns from the countryside, exhausted and famished, to find his brother Jacob cooking a stew.
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He seemed half famished, and devoured some slices of excellent ham, which I had put in my guide's knapsack, wolfishly.
The dreary weather held, there was rain and snow, gales like famished banshees pounded and yammered at the hotel windows.
There they remained till the 10th, and must have famished, had they not providently found some salt fish upon the island.
It seemed to Madame Francois that he was in far too famished a condition to have got drunk.
However, that was a slight affair, and Vance was far too famished to be particular.
The eagle lies for weeks famished in his eyry, and, hunger-driven over the ledge, leaves it to ascend no more.
A famished fox saw some clusters of rich black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.
This, you may imagine, the famished Prince was only too glad to do.
Oh, mother, the famine was sore, and he was kind to the famished people!
Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger.
The cannon will warn every one to refuse shelter to a man wandering about naked and famished.
It was simply a bare, gaunt, famished skeleton, slaying his way along.
His mien was that of the skulking, timorous, famished vagabond.
An Academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones.
Jacob also very likely regrets his unbrotherly unkindness in not feeding his famished twin but demanding the birthright in exchange for some pottage.
After weeks on the ocean, the Shimerdas were famished for fruit.
For several days he remained lurking among rocks and precipices, and almost famished, having but one remaining charge in his rifle, which he kept for self-defence.
As upland shepherds that cannot chase some famished lion from a carcase, even so could not the two Ajaxes scare Hector son of Priam from the body of Patroclus.
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