Round in mad, eager pursuit rattle the terriers, thirsting for her blood.
Sunshine, cordial as a kiss, Poureth bliss In this craving soul of mine, And my heart her flower-cup Lifteth up, Thirsting for the draught divine.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.
With what other talisman could he, without violence and without soldiers, have quelled even for a moment ten thousand furious Calvinists, armed, enraged against his person, and thirsting for vengeance on Catholics.
Yet, like a bull that sees red, the nations had rushed madly at each other, thirsting to gore each other's vitals with their horns.
When I saw those canvases, I felt the old Adam in me thirsting for expression.
Even before the grey dawn of morning the thirsting men, whose knees trembled with weakness, and who beheld close before their eyes the suffering of their wives and children, shouted more and more frequently: "On to Moses!
The dews of evening were beginning to descend upon the thirsting petals, and in the breezeless air hung, in an almost visible cloud, the grateful return of spicy and languishing odors.
She would tell him how miserable their parting had made her; and imagination revelled in the anticipation of the refreshing flood, her thirsting heart would receive in return.
Now the greater part of our band were honest people, hungering and thirsting for the Redemption of Sion: but some were vain men, children of iniquity, seeking the wages of unrighteousness.
They were literally hungering and thirsting after salvation.
Is it any wonder that I became very much attached to my old friend with the snow-white hair, who was so hungering and thirsting for the teachings of the Word?
How this world is thirsting for something that will satisfy!
Men and women are thirsting for something they have not got.
Let all who are hungering and thirsting for blessing come and receive it.
The hours to hang and die; The thirsting gasp for common breath, That passes heedless by!
But the Young Lovell had gone drooping in the hot sun and thirsting within himself and had not seen that lady.
Then, very surely, those guards would desire to see those fruits, for it was certain that they all in the Castle were thirsting for such things.
I have such insatiable longings to know and love Him better that I go about hungering and thirsting for the fellowship of those who feel so too; when I meet them I call them my "benedictions.
I have seen her continually thirsting after a spiritual union with God.
If she could have been just to a landlord for one hour last year--" He spent himself for a while in endless chains of recollection, oppressed by the clearness of his own brain, and thirsting for sleep.
I watched the men about me, and I could see them following the clock--thirsting for their turn.
Since the morning they had been thirsting for water: now they thirsted for blood!
I said to my new acquaintance, that he should hear from me, and next day I mounted my horse, and rode away to find Deering; not to challenge and shoot him, but to warn him against the treacherous devil that was thirsting for his life.
Glynn, more charmed than ever with her sweet, grave simplicity, and thirsting to kiss the lovely mouth that spoke so melodiously.
Webiorg was also inspired with the same spirit, and was attended by Bo (Bui) Bramason and Brat the Jute, thirsting for war.
This man was such a rival to his father in cruelty, that he was ever thirsting to kill, and was bent on nothing but the destruction of men, panting with a boundless lust for bloodshed.
That there was a determined and well-conceived plot to carry the Duke off is undoubted, but the counter-plots prevailed against the more ardent Bonapartists who were thirsting for a resurrection of the glorious Empire.
Who has not read, oft and again, how the Swiss Guard of twenty-six officers and seven hundred and fifty privates were cut to pieces to a man in defence of the royal prisoner of the Tuileries against the mob thirsting for her blood?
Dink, thirsting for the applause of the multitude.
It was an awful scene, for many of the wounded and dying perished by the hands of the merciless Arabs, infuriated by their Sheiks, whose wild hoarse cries rent the air, whilst the black spearmen ran hither and thither thirsting for blood.
My heart, a traveller into a thousand Lands, thirstingfor one country, which is love!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirsting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
