athirst

How To Use athirst In A Sentence

• 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
• No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous. Memorabilia
• 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
• I am ahungered and athirst — and my very garments are parting from me in my need. Phineas Redux
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Baxter's life was a sermon, demonstrating, explaining, and applying the text, ‘my soul is athirst for God’.
• athirst for knowledge