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

For my soul Was virginal, and at the virgin shrine I knelt, athirst for knowledge.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

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