athirst

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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

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

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

The amber cup of glory left me athirst to be wrapped in the mantle of your boundless love and warmed with the glow of your heart.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)