Even to-day, it must be admitted, science calms neither our thirst for justice, our desire for safety, nor our everlasting idea of happiness after life in an eternity of enjoyment.
The manacles cut into his flesh, for his wrists had swollen as he lay there, and the burning thirst was becoming maddening.
He knew, even then, that there would be a "next one," for the eternal thirst which knows no quenching had seized upon his inmost soul.
He was taking the bitter wind for his repast, and quenching his thirst with the rain that fell on his pale and feverish lips.
He rested at night under the shelter of some shed or outhouse, and cooled his feverish thirst with a little water taken from under the broken ice which locked up the springs.
Crossing a rivulet, he dismounted, and filled a small leathern bottle that he carried with him, his good steed and himself meanwhile satisfying their thirst from the cool wave.
But as they look up they see a cloud of dust rolling up from the plain beyond, and theirthirst has passed away--they know that the foe is there.
A Temptation and a Murder To be young, to thirst after a position in the world of fashion, to hunger for the smiles of beautiful women, to obtain an entry into the salons of the Faubourg, meant to Rastignac large expenditure.
The two ate little but felt a nervousthirst which made them frequently reach out their hands toward the glass.
Thirst for vengeance made the imposing dame smile with a ferocious expression.
So they record of Lysimachus that he was so overcome by thirst that he surrendered himself and his forces to the Getæ for some drink, but after he had drunk and bethought him that he was now a captive, he said, "Alas!
Out of the pure thirst after gold he was wasted away and dried up to nothing; whereas he had been a very strong and hearty man the day the shoe of the little underground man fell into his hands.
They had not brought one morsel of food with them, and thirst and hunger began now to torment them.
This perpetual hunger and thirst of his presence kept her all day on the alert.
All the way up the thieves had seemed to him to be at his heels, but now the hallucination left him - he saw them again in the place of the ambuscade - and the thirst of vengeance seized on his dying mind.
For Archie continued to drink her in with his eyes, even as a wayfarer comes to a well-head on a mountain, and stoops his face, and drinks with thirst unassuageable.
Such is the rabid thirst for money, its effects are seen over the whole moral and intellectual character of the people.
We shall reach a valley before sunset; and I have no fear but we shall there find water enough to quench the thirst of us all," he observed.
All this time my mother and Norah exhibited wonderful powers of endurance, and never complained of the steepness or dangerous nature of the road; nor did they now of the thirst from which they, in common with us all, were suffering.
For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge, thirstfor their treasures in herbs and flowers.
If the hero of the dirge died a violent death we find in addition a burning lust of revenge, a thirst for the slayer's blood, expressed with an intensity of feeling of which only women are capable.
In the former the onager is described racing at full speed over the backs of the hills when thirst and hunger drive him with his mate far from the barren solitudes into which they usually retire.
It was a tormenting thirst which nothing would quench except blood, a disease of honour which might be described as madness, although it rarely prevented the sufferer from going to work with coolness and circumspection.
The water-barrels were drained, and they tried to slake theirthirst with brine.
Yet while he was apparently following the dictates of his own adventurous spirit, it became evident, a few years later, that under his thirst for discovery and spirit of knight-errantry lay a consistent and deliberate purpose.
The child's keen thirst for knowledge, however, overcame all obstacles, and he became a marvel of learning for his unlettered companions.
Felipe's thirst for asceticism had led him to abandon his brother's court and become a Tertiary of St. Francis.
The Eastern Empire maintained its severity of legislation and continued with more or less success to repress the inextinguishable thirst for forbidden arts.
His restless curiosity and thirst for knowledge led him to accumulate books at a time when it was rare for knights to be able to sign their names.
We have seen how the thirst for ascetic poverty, coupled in many cases, doubtless, with the desire to escape from the sordid cares of daily life, led thousands to embrace a career of wandering mendicancy.
Yet the ardentthirst of poverty and the belief that in it lay the only assured path to salvation were too widely diffused to be repressed.
The other tendency was the insane thirst which inflamed the minds of the schoolmen for determining and defining, with absolute precision, every detail of the universe and of the invisible world.
The New Learning spread among a daily increasing class the thirst for knowledge and the critical spirit of inquiry, which insensibly undermined the traditional claims of the Church on the veneration and obedience of mankind.
This was a very emphatic condemnation, but, in the existing condition of human intelligence, it could do little to check the insatiable thirst for impossible knowledge.
Such is the nature of youth and its thirst for romance, that only to act as a subordinate is pleasant.
Unfortunately, the one was too salt and the other too sweet, so that we were plagued by an unquenchable thirstwhich soon became so unbearable that we could hardly advance.
Moreover, the forests are apparently enjoying it: the trees rave and reel to and fro like drunken giants; they clash boughs as revellers clash cups; they roar undying thirst and howl the health of the world.
It can best be defined as a raging thirst to knock men down without the faintest desire to hurt them.
For the novel appeal is not, after all, to a mere blind animal thirst for something that will pass and kill time, for something that will drug or flutter or amuse.
I have no sleep, no rest; I cannot eat, and there is a burning thirstever with me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
