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Francesca and Robert discover that they are kindred spirits, athirst for love, and a torrid affair commences.

Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as athirst for blood.

As for Abu Sufyan and his wife, Hind, in despair at the death of their son, Hanzalah, and debased by the defeat, they showed themselves conspicuously as being athirst for vengeance.

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

Then they lay down to sleep, and both Trust and Amos were soon snoring; whereas I was left, already athirst and hungry, to await the approach of a terrible and lingering death.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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