Crossword-Solution: FAMISHES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Think now She gives when our attention is distracted And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions That the giving famishes the craving.

Here, a sewing-woman famishes and freezes; there, mothers murder their children, that those spared may live upon the bread purchased with the burial allowances of the dead starveling; and at the next door young girls prostitute themselves for food.

That system of labor which saps the health, and shortens life, and famishes intellect, needs, and must receive, great modification.

The wretched beggarman of Ireland famishes for a crust, yet he has his farthings to spare for the greedy hypocrite who flatters his vanity, and heaps laudations on his social importance.

Thus property divides men into "two castes, an oppressed laboring caste that famishes and suffers and an idle oppressing caste that enjoys and lives in superfluity."[1077] "We are all brothers, and yet every morning my brother or my sister carries out my dishes.