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
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
We believe that Jesus Christ was like unto us, hungry as we are, and athirst; that He felt as we feel, knew our joys and sorrows, our trials and temptations.
From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
To him they were just two throats athirst; nothing more.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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