athirst

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The novelist is said to have confessed that he finds the pugilist almost without a sense of humor, but interestingly athirst and groping.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Detroit, five-year-old Donald Prieur, athirst for knowledge, set out for school for the first time, paused en route to take up the study of a barrel, was eventually sawed out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why not bring the art of the cinema to bars, restaurants, lunch wagons, station waiting-rooms, drugstores, wherever idle people congregate with time on their hands and minds athirst for esthetic experience?

From Time Magazine Archive

I desire to know; my labouring intellect is athirst to comprehend and understand, and its first discoveries enchant it.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

When in the midst of nature nursed, Sweet influences fell, On childly hearts that were athirst, Like soft dews in the bell Of tender flowers, that bowed their heads, And breathed a fresher smell.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert