athirst

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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

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

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

He longed to see the lands of which the sailor-men had spoken; he was athirst for discovery.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

Addie, with his eyes bright with laughing surprise, thought it very jolly of her and would go with her, though he was no walker and preferred bicycling, athirst for speed.

From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis