athirst
Example Sentences
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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
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
After which the dog lay panting and athirst once more; his tender nose sore and bruised and bleeding; the muzzle as firmly fixed in place as ever.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
He was so sleepy, so tired out and out, that from very weariness he forgot that he was hungry and athirst.
From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh
