How To Use Athirst In A Sentence
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All adversity finds ease in complaining (as [3421] Isidore holds), and 'tis a solace to relate it, [3422] Ἀγαθὴ δε ἐταίρου. Friends 'confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter, shade in summer, quale sopor fessis in gramine, meat and drink to him that is hungry or athirst;
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I saw many originally low, and to whom lack of education left scarcely anything but animal wants, disappointed in those wants, ahungered, athirst, and desperate as famished animals: I saw what taught my brain a new lesson, and filled my breast with fresh feelings.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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'Kings! ye athirst for conquest,' etc. _You_ are not _athirst_ for it but _take it coolly_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
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They started on the old "Very kind, lads, God bless you, boys," and so we rang the collocol and brought a different waiter in this time and we ordered beers with rum in, being sore athirst, my brothers, and whatever the old ptitsas wanted.
Where's the show?
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My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God :
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Therefore, I can gather to me no more possessions, and when ye are athirst for hooch, he will quench ye and without robbery.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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He believed that the respect in which these journals were held by a reading public athirst for good commentary would cause a very undesirable public indignation in the event of their suppression.
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The sooner that they rose, the sharper was their appetite and the barkings of their stomachs, and the gnawings increased in the like proportion, and consequently made these godly men thrice more a-hungered and athirst than when their matins were hemmed over only with three lessons.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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You are probably athirst with romantic desire.
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And when it was afloat all the chiefs were athirst, not being used to such toil; and I was told to climb the palms beside the canoe-sheds and throw down drink-coconuts.
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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athirst for knowledge
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Baxter's life was a sermon, demonstrating, explaining, and applying the text, ‘my soul is athirst for God’.
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Not alone, had Ngurn informed him, was the Red One more bestial powerful than the neighbour tribal gods, ever athirst for the red blood of living human sacrifices, but the neighbour gods themselves were sacrificed and tormented before him.
THE RED ONE
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We fell on each other like old chums - he didn't know me well, you see, but mostly by my fearsome reputation; he was one of your play-up-and-fear-God paladins, full of zeal and athirst for glory, was John, and said his prayers and didn't drink and thought women were either nuns or mothers.
Fiancée
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Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee ahungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew 25.
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But the ardent and active spirit of Lady Penelope, still athirst after novelty, though baffled in her two first projects, brought forward a third, in which she was more successful.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I am ahungered and athirst — and my very garments are parting from me in my need.
Phineas Redux
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Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
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No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous.
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