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Meanings of famished men in English

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Usage of famished men in English
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The thoughts of the famished men in Fort Caroline turned homeward with eager longing.
French Pathfinders in North America
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The famished men soon consumed everything eatable they could come at on the island.
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
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They moved Perth-ward, a stricken line of famished men, wondering dumbly what was to happen.
The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
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The famished men could no longer march.
Original Short Stories — Volume 05
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All ate like famished men, while the firelight intensified the red paint upon their wild and warlike faces.
Old Indian Days
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When the voyagers landed, they found at Port Royal a band of half- famished men, eagerly expecting their succor.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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A band of half- famished men gathered about the huge fires of their barn-like hall, moody, sullen, and quarrelsome.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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The hopelessness of any such venture was apparent, even to famished men, and the propositions went no farther than inflammatory talk.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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With eight thousand famished men I will attack your camp, and I will fight till I cut my way through it.
Pushing to the Front
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Only as a last resource, for the Englishman is powerful and may cause our half- famished men a good deal of trouble.
The Elusive Pimpernel
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This discovery would have transported with joy a less numerous troop; but, to so many famished men it presented only very feeble resource.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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Nothing could be carried away but the two famished men, and they were helped down to the boat without coming into active hostilities.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
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I know not whether hunger could drive us to act likewise, but we know the lengths to which famished men can be driven.
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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Nevertheless, the sullen, angry roar of famished men, that is so closely, so terribly like the roar of wild beasts, did not cease.
Under Two Flags
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Here he was joined by Colonel Arnold with a crowd of half- famished men, who had ascended the Kennebec and then struck across the wilderness.
A Brief History of the United States
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So eager were the famished men for food, that "they rushed into the sea as eagerly as they would into their straw."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
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