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

I have been like a man athirst in the desert; but I have waited day after day, until now I can wait no longer, sweetheart.'

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

"You do not understand me, my gay young Andalusian; I mean that I am athirst to smoke, myself, and I have just been calling on a man who never smokes!"

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de