athirst

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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

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 have been like a man athirst in the desert; but I have waited day after day, until now I can wait no longer, sweetheart.'

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

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