athirst
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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
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 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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
At the same time Queen Marie was athirst on her bed of childbirth.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
