He strove with his longing greed for this man's destruction; he knew that he thirsted to see him die.
So that they who were of such families thirsted after what they held aright to be asserted, viz.
Homeric commemoration; and they who were not thirsted after what had begun to seem a feasible ambition to be accomplished.
Was not the question still, how, of all loves, to grasp the thing his soul thirsted after?
Straight up to the big gate we advanced, and so secure did the garrison feel in the friendship of the savages, who thirsted for the blood of such white people as were not in the king's favor, that the barrier was not so much as closed.
We did not expect to make the journey without some danger of coming across small parties of the painted brutes who thirsted for the blood of white people; but it was not in our thoughts that we should encounter any serious dangers.
Gavin knew what way very well, but he thirsted to hear in her words what his own had implied.
I knew thou wouldst never have returned without them, however my heart thirsted after thee.
The leaves caught gold across the sun, And where the bluest air begun Thirsted for song to help the heat; As I to feel my lady's feet Draw close before the day were done; Both lips grew dry with dreams of it.
If you knew how I had hungered and thirsted for a sight of you!
He thirsted for more like a desert traveler for water, but he dared not speak for fear of what he might betray.
In her heart she knew she was wrong, yet she thirsted for justification.
The water that flowed from each of them, in obedience to the touch of the servant's hand, if the change were effected then, as is possible, would flow on so long as any thirsted or any asked.
Those braggarts who thirsted for blood have experienced the noble generosity of their brave conquerors.
Christianas ad leones), and in presence of thousands of spectators of the Imperial and Patrician families of Rome, and for the gratification of the multitude whichthirsted for blood, and such blood as was most noble and innocent.
She thirsted to have her soul filled with the love of Christ, and when we reflect on such a character, what a power is there in the promise, “So shall we ever be with the Lord”!
And to escape it she had no resource, but that which she knew was to her like a poison-draught, and for which she yet thirsted evermore--the daily welcome at the Parsonage.
And truly the mother's heart now thirstedfor that flood.
On the Saturday word was carried through the parish by Watty that the Word would be preached next day in the barn at Rowallan by their beloved shepherd, and all whose soul thirsted for the living water were invited to attend.
Her tongue seemed as if parched; she thirsted for the wine, and listened for a long while, in the vain hope that she might hear the footsteps of the innkeeper's servant, bringing the bottle under her apron.
He thirsted for drink; perhaps it might give him new strength and, what was still better, might enable him to forget.
For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth, For thee I trembled in the nightly frost: Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth: Why wilt thou still be lost?
He had profited from philosophy and history alike, from sciences and arts, but he thirsted after the secret of reality, and longed for knowledge of God.
The people had been already rendered savage by the exhibition of blood; they thirsted for more; their superstition was aided by their ferocity.
Never before had the charms of a woman awakened any deep feeling in his heart; he had only thirsted after glory and deeds of daring, after tournaments and feuds.
His adventurous soul, cramped up in this castle so far removed from the world, thirsted for the adventures, which he imagined were awaiting the crusaders in the far-off East.
I had great ambition--I thirsted to know, to do, to become.
He thirsted to achieve, to do, to become--yes, to become a greater painter than Claude Lorraine.
The emperor still thirsted for revenge; and his subjects and allies of the Syrian frontier were repeatedly pressed to seize the person, and put out the eyes, of the fugitive.
He thirsted for approbation, for distinction, for notoriety.
He had set his heart on a political career--he thirsted for power--and no doubt Mrs. Austen encouraged him in this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirsted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
