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

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

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

Then they lay down to sleep, and both Trust and Amos were soon snoring; whereas I was left, already athirst and hungry, to await the approach of a terrible and lingering death.

From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles

They are fed with the emptiness past the veil, And their hunger is filled; They have found the waters of peace, And are athirst no more.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton