Through her, these miserable chambers will bloom for a while like a garden; and the best wines of Europe will slake your thirst in lieu of that miserable tisane.
And I say that, if my children are of my fashion of thinking, they will choke like dogs dying of thirst rather than slake their throats with alms cast to them as if they were beggars!
Their Lord will slake their thirst with a pure drink.
Y: That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slakethe thirst of things We have created,- cattle and men in great numbers.
I swear to slake my thirst in the cistern of Mohammad's "qawm.
We can gather round that Rock like the Israelites in the wilderness, and slake every thirst of our souls from its outgushing streams.
That will not slake to-day's thirst, nor prevent its recurrence.
To seek for satisfaction elsewhere is like sailors who in their desperation, when the water-tanks are empty, slake their thirst with the treacherous blue that washes cruelly along the battered sides of their ship.
Slake the lime and work up to a thin cream with water and pour into the cistern, which already contains at least 50 gallons of water to be softened.
Take three bushels of shell lime, hot from the kiln, or as fresh as possible, and slake it with water in which one bushel of salt has been dissolved.
In this way, the salt may be all dissolved, and thus make the brine used toslake the lime.
In England we slake our lime and make use of it while it is fresh; but it may interest you to know that the custom in Italy and parts of France is different.
Cement stones are also calcined; but the resulting material will not fall to pieces or slake under water.
There it is customary to slake the lime long before it is wanted, and to deposit it in a pit and cover it up with earth.
And yet how glorious he had looked as he lay upon the lawn, hot from his rowing, all unbraced, brown and bold and joyous as a young god, as he bade her go and fetch him drink to slake his thirst!
In like manner he would halt to pluck any stray ears of wild oats that grew along the hedge sides, and occasionally slake his thirst at convenient streamlets.
I have sat in my arm-chair with a beating, throbbing heart, as I imagined the troubles of a king, and I have drunk my Bordeaux with tears of gratitude as I fancied myself a peasant with only water to slake his thirst.
She died to slake the cruelly vindictive thirst of King James II on the one hand, and Colonel Penruddock on the other, against her husband who had been dead for twenty years.
There was no law, human or divine, the King was not prepared to violate so that he might slake his vengeance upon the man who had dared to love where he had loved.
His thoughts swung with sudden yearning to his wife Juana and their children, held in brutal captivity by Philip, who sought to slake upon them some of the vindictiveness from which their husband and father had at last escaped.
Now, however, we incline to the belief that they fell from the pocket of some weary soldier in Armstrong's battalion, who lay down upon the bank of the brook to slake his thirst, nearly a hundred years ago.
At my urgent solicitation the captain was for once induced to double our allowance of water; and this relaxation of the ordinary rule enabled us to attempt to slake our thirst four times in the day, instead of only twice.
All that we desired was just once to slake our raging thirst and moderate our gnawing hunger.
My snake with bright bland eyes, my snake Grown tame and glad to be caressed, With lips athirst for mine to slake Their tender fever!
Then came to my mind the ghastly words of Obermann in his gloomy elegy, which I wish I had never read, "Roots slake their thirst in foulest streams.
From Wargrave he came walking down, In hope to soon reach Henley town; And at the "Lion" find repast, To slake his thirst and break his fast.
If he could only slake his terrible thirst he felt he might possibly survive, for the pain had eased somewhat.
Near the middle of the afternoon, his mother being feverish, it was necessary that she should go to the river and slake her thirst.
Now that the Russian can boast no longer He alone of us is stronger To slake his steppes with hostile blood.
There was the shrinking from using the water to slake his thirst merely, and there was the resolve to pour it out as a libation to God.
It is misinterpreted by the man who is conscious of it, and far too often he tries to slake the thirst by fiery and drugged liquors which but make it more intense.
We are permitted to slake our thirst with water, drawn from one of these cisterns--cisterns from which men have drank in all ages, from the days of Moses to the present time.
They fell into the trap, and were quietly taken out, and the waiter returned after walking a couple of blocks and leaving them in a low drinking shop where they wished to slake their thirst.
