Many people also opt for famishing themselves in order to shed weight more quickly. But famishing oneself is not a recommendation of quick weight loss.
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The Doctor's servant, Kilian, who is famishing, asks for food.
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Millions upon millions are famishing for the bread and water of life.
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The famishing men feasted so ravenously that most of them became ill.
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She was glad to eat heartily, for she was famishing with hunger.
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A famishing man has never yet been hung for stealing to sustain life.
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Papa, he is famishing, and I don't think he can contain himself any longer.
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I am not sorry, as I am famishing, and it is pudding day, too.
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One day the writer was accosted by a weaver who was in a famishing condition.
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On reaching the river at the point where we were camped, they were famishing with hunger.
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Not alone those in the famishing countries are affected, but also people in the affluent and well-nourished countries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On still went their fleeing comrades, through swamp and covert, across rock and stream, until midday when, famishing with hunger, and reaching a spot where food seemed likely to be procured, the flight was stayed.
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The men were famishing of thirst. They fell by scores with heat exhaustion".Daggett, 64 The Americans bore the brunt of the Chinese resistance as they advanced on the strongest Chinese positions behind the railroad embankment. "The plain in front of us was a furnace.
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Twain, "The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire", Tales of Wonder, University of Nebraska Press, 2003, p. 176ff. Twain described Eddy as "[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish."Twain 1907, p. 284.
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But in a book published posthumously, Le Banquet, these powers reappear at their fullest. The picture of the industrious and famishing populations of the Riviera is (whether true to fact or not) one of the best things that Michelet has done. To complete the list of his miscellaneous works, two collections of pieces, written and partly published at different times, may be mentioned. These are Les Soldats de la révolution and Legendes démocratiques du nord.
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In chapter 6, de Bury describes the life of the religious mendicant, members of religious orders who rely upon charity and forgo all possessions. Here, de Bury argues that mendicants are too tempted by fine food, luxurious garments, and grand housing while books are considered superfluous. "And whatever they could steal from their famishing belly, or intercept from their half-covered body, they thought it the highest gain to spend in buying or correcting books."de Bury, p.
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MDCCCXLI from the Williamite camp reported that the fort was "haunted by wretched people in the lowest stage of suffering, from the famine caused by the waste of both parties." He reported that while the English army had supplies, they "could afford nothing to the crowd of forlorn and famishing outcasts whom danger collected around the camp; to these, so dreadful was their destitution that a morsel of garbage was a feast, and they flocked as ravens round the putrifying and blackened carcasses of dead horses which lay rotting in the summer sun".
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Parable of the Great Banquet by Brunswick Monogrammist (circa 1525), location: National Museum, Warsaw The parable has been depicted by artists such as Bernardo Cavallino, Jan Luyken, and John Everett Millais. A number of Christian hymns have been inspired by the parable, such as "All is ready" by Fanny Crosby,The Cyber Hymnal: All is Ready. and "All Things are Ready" by Charles H. Gabriel, which begins: > "All things are ready," come to the feast! Come, for the table now is > spread; Ye famishing, ye weary, come, And thou shalt be richly fed.
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After this, the depredations gradually ceased, as the Saiads destroyed the jungle of brush wood that was used as an ambush. The descendants of the Saiads were also made patels of Gangapurbarri, an office which is still partly in their hands. A legend about Gangapurbarri relates that a Mahomedan saint miraculously supplied a large quantity of "ganda" or sugar-cane juice, to some ruler who was passing by and was famishing with thirst. When the prince heard the name of the place, he requested that it should be called "Naishakarpur,'" in reference to the sugar- cane juice; and this was changed to a similar word in Hindostani, Gandapur.
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" West Cork was hit hard by the 1840s Great Famine. On 9 February 1847, U.S. Vice President George M. Dallas chaired a famine relief meeting in Washington, D.C. where participants heard a letter addressed to the "Ladies of America" from the women of The Dunmanway Indian Meal Ladies' Committee: > "Oh! that our American sisters could see the labourers on our roads, able- > bodied men, scarcely clad, famishing with hunger, with despair in their once > cheerful faces, staggering at their work ... oh! that they could see the > dead father, mother or child, lying coffinless and hear the screams of the > survivors around them, caused not by sorrow, but by the agony of hunger.
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In 2007, Ralf Sudau took the view that particular attention should be paid to the motifs of self-abnegation and disregard for reality. Gregor's earlier behavior was characterized by self-renunciation and his pride in being able to provide a secure and leisured existence for his family. When he finds himself in a situation where he himself is in need of attention and assistance and in danger of becoming a parasite, he doesn't want to admit this new role to himself and be disappointed by the treatment he receives from his family, which is becoming more and more careless and even hostile over time. According to Sudau, Gregor is self-denyingly hiding his nauseating appearance under the canapé and gradually famishing, thus pretty much complying with the more or less blatant wish of his family.
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Samuel Wray, who had sent Harding a poem to thank him for sending a hare and Cheddar cheese for Christmas: My dear Mr. Wary, I answer your lay On behalf of myself and my wife Your poetical lore has raked up my store Long hid' neath the business of life When you speak of our God in sending you here And thank Him for blessings into the third year. You should not have mentioned the cheese and the game They do not deserve among presents a name But I'm pleased that the hare, the "unparadised hare" Stood so high in your own estimation, For though it was sweet, and perhaps a treat, I did not expect its translation. His honours were great, as ordained by fate, For just in the midst of its run With Jerry on trail, just close to its tail She died by a short from my gun. And this was not all, for after her fall 'Twas served on your table so good Supplying two dinners for famishing sinners.
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