athirst

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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

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

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

Voices Unceasingly, Wherever we wander, Shall we be anhungered, Shall we be athirst, For Zion!

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

Around those lips a shadowy half-smile was playing, but they were white with fatigue or excitement, and he drank the water instantly, as if athirst.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth