Alive, perchance, on some lone beach Or thirsty isle beyond the reach Of man, he hears the mocking speech Of wind and sea.
ALL'S WELL The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty souls with rain; The blow most dreaded falls to break From off our limbs a chain; And wrongs of man to man but make The love of God more plain.
Most willingly, fair Elsie, I'll drink that mead of thine, And leave my minstrel's thirsty throat to drain my generous wine.
Strange they should all be so thirsty this morning," he pondered.
Above them by day the burning vault of blue, by night the wheeling galaxies--around them the trackless levels of a thirsty land.
Still, from the simple fact of their dispensing water in arid and thirsty lands, they possess not unfrequently a rich store of family and tribal legends.
Or thirsty Treason offer once to sippe One dropp of this pure nectar, wch doth flow In azure channells warme through mounts of snow?
Lo, how the thirsty Lands Gasp for Thy golden showres!
There was no water at this spot, but seeing a green place upon the slope of a hill close by, Zinti walked to it, leading the thirsty beasts.
At length came the eve of the wedding day and with it the predicant, who arrived hungry and thirsty but running over with smiles and blessings.
He bolted our floors, And our vessels by scores, And the thirstyold rot was a dry 'un, a dry 'un!
Andy went off as he was bidden, and came behind the thirsty gentleman's chair, with "I beg your pardon sir.
At noon the men were as usual piped to dinner, with an excellent appetite for their pork and pease, and a thirsty relish for their grog; for which blessings they had the cow alone to thank.
That is a very blood-thirsty young man; his style of conversation is really extraordinary," said the clergyman to Dr.
On the road he is thirsty and drinks a whole pond dry, but this fails to quench his thirst.
The Rani was very thirstyand she said to the woman, "Please give me some water, I am so thirsty.
The justice of the Cinque Ports, of which Fordwich was a member, was by no means tempered with mercy, and was as blood-thirsty as those early laws of the Israelites duly set forth with much horrifying circumstantiality in Leviticus.
Retaliation to a certain extent was meted out to the blood-thirsty savages until Spain was glad to cede the peninsula to the United States in 1819 for five million dollars.
Savage and blood-thirsty by nature, if there is no caravan to rob or common enemy to fight, neighboring tribes easily find cause for fighting one another.
As he was wending his course along one of the canyons he came across a spring, and, being boththirsty and tired, after taking a drink sat down to rest.
They are also the most ferocious and blood-thirsty villains on the face of the earth.
Again, Bacon is one who, instead of a picture of painted grapes, gives us real grapes from which we press "the thirsty soul's refreshing wine.
But this was only one of the many impulses of a spirit ardently thirsty of knowledge and novelty.
Here ineffectual shallow pools had preserved illusion and given tourists something at which to laugh in the dry season; the weed licked them up like a thirsty cow at a wallow.
I was as thirsty as a windy flower That bares its bosom to the summer shower And to the unremembered winds that came.
Bright glows the light, whether the resin thick Of pine-brand flares, or waxen tapers burn With melting radiance, or the hollow urn Yields its stored sweetness to the thirsty wick.
Strange how one about to die and very thirsty should remember such things!
My ears are as thirsty to listen as was my throat thirsty last night.
Though soft and gentle it would have had no particular attraction for the now thirsty Rokuzo.
The Monedula signata is a good friend to travellers in those parts of the Amazons which are infested by the blood-thirsty Motuca.
And as he was very thirsty he lighted his candle to go to drink a glass of fresh water from the filter in the kitchen.
He held his chin high, although he gazed at the bubbling spring thirstily; and, thirsty though he must have been, he asked no favors.
But the poor creatures are too thirsty and dispirited just now to give any sport, and the first touch of the cord is enough to bring them back to their allegiance.
Though rather insipid, the limes are deliciously refreshing in this thirsty country; and they do no harm, however enormously one may indulge in them.
In this thirsty season, while the cattle in the Mexican plains derive moisture from the cactus, the aloe provides for man a substitute for water.
The Peruvians cut through mountains, filled up valleys, and carried whole rivers away in artificial channels to irrigate their thirsty soil.
In these thirsty regions, when springs and brooks are dry, the cattle bite them to get at the moisture, regardless of the thorns.
I will,' ses he, 'because I am getting thirsty as well as homesick.
And sure I need not tell you that the more you'd drink of that, the more thirsty you'd become.
The caravan set out early for the sake of the thirsty animals.
