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athirst

[uh-thurst] / əˈθɜrst /


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thirsty
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Why not bring the art of the cinema to bars, restaurants, lunch wagons, station waiting-rooms, drugstores, wherever idle people congregate with time on their hands and minds athirst for esthetic experience?

From Time Magazine Archive

In Detroit, five-year-old Donald Prieur, athirst for knowledge, set out for school for the first time, paused en route to take up the study of a barrel, was eventually sawed out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The novelist is said to have confessed that he finds the pugilist almost without a sense of humor, but interestingly athirst and groping.

From Time Magazine Archive

I desire to know; my labouring intellect is athirst to comprehend and understand, and its first discoveries enchant it.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

They are fed with the emptiness past the veil, And their hunger is filled; They have found the waters of peace, And are athirst no more.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith


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