When water is spilled on dry ground both the dry ground and the water disappear and mud results; and in the same way the entry of the famished army into the rich and deserted city resulted in fires and looting and the destruction of both the army and the wealthy city.
It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.
Had Tarzan been
famished he would, doubtless, have stood his ground and met the lion's charge.
"Does everybody here recall old Foulon, who told the famished people that they might eat grass, and who died, and went to Hell?"
From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their children, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.
After weeks on the ocean, the Shimerdas were
famished for fruit.
He described how he labored with her and convinced her; and how she almost died for joy when she had groped to where she actually saw the blue speck of daylight; how he pushed his way out at the hole and then helped her out; how they sat there and cried for gladness; how some men came along in a skiff and Tom hailed them and told them their situation and their
famished condition; how the men didn't believe the wild tale at first, "because," said they, "you are five miles down the river below the valley the cave is in" -- then took them aboard, rowed to a house, gave them supper, made them rest till two or three hours after dark and then brought them home.
To be near the goal while the enemy is still far from it, to wait at ease while the enemy is toiling and struggling, to be well-fed while the enemy is
famished:--this is the art of husbanding one's strength.
They searched in vain; not a trace of the men could be found; but they got into a region destitute of game, where they were well-nigh
famished. At one time they were three entire days with-out a mouthful of food; at length they beheld a buffalo grazing at the foot of the mountain.
SOME DOGS
famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.
famished upon the sifted meal and distilled water of a prudish purveyance.