Famished [adjective]

But this one swift achievement only whetted the famished appetite to more creative ardor.

All these famished islanders, in the depths of their savage country, promised each other to meet at the Nabob's table.

In November, fifteen martyrs were imprisoned in Canterbury castle, of whom all were either burnt or famished.

He helps you to a deep gully, and there you remain till evening, half-famished for food.

As soon as he discovered me, a bright gleam passed over his countenance, and he instantly held out to me that famished hand.

Whatever I could procure, I divided with the famished hand, which had become to me a precious charge.

And the famished wretch would have gladly been a slave again.

Thus it happened that after many days they grew hungry, almost famished.

He had been famished, he had been frozen, he had been burned by the sun.

We were famished, so fell to on the supper of buttermilk and potatoes.