slake

Example Sentences

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Slake your thirst, but stay and tell me: did your heart with terror beat, When you stepped across the bare and blasted hillock at your feet?

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

But Dermat stepped aside, and, being angry, thus addressed him— "Slake thy vengeance on our foes for the present: for me, the swords of the foreigners are enough, methinks, without thine to aid them!"

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

Construe: Slake with tears and sighs a wound in thy heart's core—a wound more fierce than his.'

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I have no objection to suffering The Lady's Last Slake to be engraved, but, on the contrary, should be happy to do anything which might contribute to add to the reputation of my deceased friend.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

Slake the lime in a separate barrel, using just enough water to make a smooth, clean, thin whitewash.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)