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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

And she must love so, else she would die of famishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference

We've got a fair chance o 'goin' un'er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o 'empty stomaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference

Is Gastronomi, a system to measure the famishment of the driver to avoid the dangers of driving hunger that unbelievable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Baltimore] Reference

On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment, during a great portion of the year. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses] Reference

Whether famishment gleamed in my eye, I knew not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

Thei avoide also diseases, and famishment, with causyng the armie to kepe no misrule, for that to purpose to maintain it in health, it is nedefull to provide, that the souldiours maie slepe under tentes, that thei maie lodge where bee Trees, that make shadowe, where woodde is for to dresse their meate, that thei go not in the heate, and therefore thei muste bee drawen out of the campe, before daie in Summer, and in Winter, to take hede that thei marche not in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Machiavelli, Volume I] Reference