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    1. Psalms: 63:1: O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirst for thee, my flesh long for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


    2. Thirst was a strange


    3. had known in all these years of absolute and necessary thirst


    4. Most of the common folk doubted there was any God at all anywhere, just thirst, hunger, heat, cold, mean skinny dogs, hunger and thirst


    5. When again I awoke from the dream-time I developed a raging thirst and the soft flesh of my mouth thickened


    6. She could feel the need, could sense the exquisite pain of that once in a lifetime craving, a passion that inflamed her entire being beyond anything that she had known in all these years of absolute and necessary thirst


    7. This statement is made by Paul, who suffered lashes at the hands of the Jews 5 times, 3 times he was beaten with rods, once pelted with stones, shipwrecked 3 times, spent a day and a night in the open sea, had been constantly on the move, had been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from his fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger in the sea, in danger from false believers, had gone without sleep, had known hunger and thirst – often going without food, and has been cold and naked


    8. It was an imperative, an unquenchable thirst, almost a universal longing for an end to this particular night


    9. Yarnay was noticing a lot more about her than her thirst for yaag, so was Tuida, the other guy on mast six


    10. Son felt the pain of hunger and thirst over the days until he

    11. the pain of hunger, and drank from a cactus to quench his thirst


    12. Let me bring you something to satisfy the thirst


    13. We stand there looking at her while she slakes her thirst


    14. Tears quench an inner thirst, therefore, let the baby cry


    15. But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water


    16. thirst, the two men started a desultory conversation comparing the


    17. Ted has a thirst on


    18. “You associate that with my laziness don’t you? Which do you think came first? The laziness or the thirst for yaag? It was the laziness by a few virtual centuries


    19. ” Harry paused to allow himself a moment to gather fully his resolve, “I will attempt to encourage her thirst


    20. 'We’ll all be dead of thirst by then!’ said Corrente

    21. drink of the water on the desk next to him, not out of thirst, but out of frustration


    22. It was smooth and slick, just cool and wet enough to quench thirst


    23. parch with thirst, but I the Lord will


    24. His thirst gave credence to a theory he’d


    25. “When I will send a famine through the land- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord


    26. So if you don't want to die of thirst or heat stroke you would be wise to follow me


    27. "But you will find the stream will adequately satisfy your thirst" and he handed around wooden goblets


    28. She drank almost half of the bottle before her thirst was slaked


    29. By now, my uncles drank with deep thirst, too


    30. We felt very glad to sate our thirst before filling up the casks

    31. But nothing could assuage our growing thirst and hunger


    32. Obviously, Tragus's search for her hadn’t diminished his thirst


    33. If it hadn’t rained on the third morning, they would have died of thirst


    34. There was rain again that night, relieving their thirst, but it also made Nerissa shiver hard


    35. He seemed to thirst for knowledge about all the things that made this world


    36. To quench your thirst in your dream indicates that you have the ability to succeed and fulfill your desires


    37. All of these are selfish qualities that come into play when you thirst for something that you do not have


    38. Suddenly overcome with thirst, he searched round for refreshment, and upon finding none, commanded Mrs Pilfer to bring in the port


    39. Thirst for sense pleasures


    40. We thirst for and seek out sense pleasures, in the mistaken belief that they will give us happiness, or as a substitute for the happiness that is out of reach for us

    41. A mouthful satisfied all thirst


    42. It was the sacred thirst of gold that carried Ovieda, Nicuessa, and Vasco Nugnes de Balboa, to the Isthmus of Darien ; that carried Cortes to Mexico, Almagro and Pizarro to Chili and Peru


    43. People were wandering dazed in the deserts, children dying of thirst


    44. I must tell you however that even with the supplies coming up from the beach there will not be enough water for all of us and we must do something to prevent thirst and dehydration


    45. Even so it seemed like the land had been cultivated and looked after we continued on and the sun shone down roasting us like pigs on a spit and all the time our thirst was getting worse


    46. “Throw us your water bottle Billy Boy it looks as hot as Hades up there I will get it filled for you there is no point dying of thirst when we have well in front of us


    47. I came to and opened my eyes I was led on the ground and now I was looking up into the blazing sun I don’t know how long I was unconscious but my mouth was parched and I was nearly mad with thirst


    48. I tried to shout over to Elijah to ask him how he was but it came out as a terrible croak because my throat was raw and I had a terrible thirst and I tried to moisten my lips but I had no saliva in my mouth and my tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth


    49. During those long hours, my Son said few words, “I thirst,” were two of them


    50. Suddenly, she had an overwhelming thirst














































    1. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the


    2. not hungry, and I drank no water, yet I thirsted not, and I was there till the seventh day, as He had commanded me


    3. 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, therefore is this what you have brought us to up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?


    4. and thirsted for more!


    5. 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against


    6. 1 And I went there and sat in the valley of Kidron in a cave of the Earth and I sanctified my soul there and I ate no bread yet I was not hungry and I drank no water yet I thirsted not and I was there till the seventh day as He had commanded me


    7. 43 But when the Son of man comes in his glory and all his pure angels with him then shall he sit on the throne of his glory and he will gather before him all the nations and separate them the one from the other like the shepherd who separates the sheep from the goats; and will set the sheep on his right and the goats on his left; Then shall the King say to those who are at his right Come you blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world; I hungered and you gave me to eat; and I thirsted and you gave me to drink; and I was a stranger and you took me in; and I was naked and you clothed me; and I was sick and you visited me; and I was in prison and you cared for me; Then shall those righteous say to him Our Lord when saw we you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you to drink? And when saw we you a stranger and took you in? or naked and clothed you? And when saw we you sick or imprisoned and cared for you? The King shall answer an d say to them Truely I say to you What you did to one of these my brothers the little ones you did to me; Then shall he say to those who are on his left also Depart from me you cursed 54 into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his hosts; I hungered and you fed me not; and I thirsted and you did not give me to drink; and I was a stranger and you took me not in; and I was naked and you clothed me not; and I was sick and imprisoned and you visited me not; Then shall those also answer and say Our Lord when saw we you an hungred or athirst or naked or a stranger or sick or imprisoned and did not minister to you? Then shall he answer and say to them Truely I say to you When you did it not to one of these little ones you did it not to me also; And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life


    8. If I thirsted, I opened my mouth and rain fell into it


    9. The fisherman ambled through the dunes for weeks, yet he never tired, thirsted, or opened his mouth to utter a syllable of grief or privation


    10. vinegar when they thirsted

    11. woman, I also thirsted to nestle up his arms with soft smile and enjoy his care


    12. Human nature was quite odd, Feltus concluded, for those people had been no more interested in the safe return of the missing woman than they had been in the local news; they had merely thirsted for action and tragic drama, and undoubtedly their reactions would have been significantly different had they brought a body in, draped over a saddle, or a live woman in perfect but shaken condition


    13. This was a time to exchange how the Holy Spirit was moving among His own, and how we all had the privilege to witness it, all hungered and thirsted for more as He moved within those seeking Him in the many nations


    14. He that drank of these waters soon thirsted again


    15. Few indeed are to be found who pray: many who go down on their knees, and say a form perhaps, but few who pray; few who cry unto God, few who call upon the Lord, few who seek as if they wanted to find, few who knock as if they hungered and thirsted, few who wrestle, few who strive with God earnestly for an answer, few who give Him no rest, few who continue in prayer, few who watch unto prayer, few who pray always without ceasing, and faint not


    16. her heart that still thirsted for love and tender care


    17. She came to thirst, and such was his skill that she thirsted healthily, for her husband or her father or whoever it was she had left, for worries, catastrophes, disgrace--for anything so long as it was so obliging as not to be love


    18. Robin, all unaware of his mother's thoughts, was longing to ask her to go to Baker's and take him with her as a first step towards the acquaintance after which his soul thirsted, but he refrained for various discreet reasons based on an intimate knowledge of his mother's character; and he spent the evening perfecting a plan that should introduce him into the interior of Baker's without her help


    19. but he thirsted battles,


    20. Many have long thirsted for the details I have recovered, reassembled, and

    21. thirsted for the golden altar's simple ark


    22. She thirsted for his lips


    23. Then did you, chivalrous Terence, hand forth, as to the manner born, that nectarous beverage and you offered the crystal cup to him that thirsted, the soul of chivalry, in beauty akin to the immortals


    24. The one joy after which his soul thirsted was to have a money-changer's shop on a muchfrequented quay, to have locks all round him of which he held the keys, and to look sublimely cool as he handled the breeding coins of all nations, while helpless Cupidity looked at him enviously from the other side of an iron lattice


    25. But her soul thirsted to see him


    26. I thirsted for more


    27. Queen Iseult, do you mind you of that hot and open day on the high seas? We thirsted and we drank together from the same cup, and since that day have I been drunk with an awful wine


    28. Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror


    29. My heart burnt within my breast; I felt as if I were her knight; I thirsted to prove to her that I was worthy of her trust, and I impatiently expected the decisive moment


    30. I have long thirsted for an opportunity for being talked about, but could not attain it, fettered by my humble position and low grade in the service

    31. They became acquainted with sorrow and loved sorrow; they thirsted for suffering, and said that truth could only be attained through suffering


    32. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God to lighten his darkness but only thirsted for the joyous emotion, which always visited his soul after the praise and adoration, of which his evening prayer usually consisted


    33. But it was justice, justice, he thirsted for, not simply miracles


    34. He thirsted for that reformation and renewal


    35. He thirsted perhaps to see his father after long years of separation


    36. ” He had long thirsted, for reasons of his own, to penetrate the mysteries of the magic circle, and, therefore, this assemblage was of the greatest possible interest to him


    37. You thirsted, while in Switzerland, for your home-country, for Russia; you read, doubtless, many books about Russia, excellent books, I dare say, but hurtful to you; and you arrived here; as it were, on fire with the longing to be of service


    1. 9 For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in anger and tormented, thirsting in


    2. Athos to a people thirsting for it, in spite of their present vicissitudes


    3. When you’re soul is thirsting,


    4. public thirsting for salvation


    5. Angry at taxes and thirsting for liberty


    6. " Will anyone tell me there is no inward danger, when the real presence, and the Romish confessional, and ecclesiastical lawlessness, and Home Rule, are quietly tolerated on one side, and the atonement, and Christ's divinity, and the inspiration of Scripture, and the reality of miracles, are coolly thrown overboard on the other? Will anyone tell me there is no outward danger, when infidels, Papists, and Dissenters are hungering and thirsting after the destruction of the Establishment, and compassing sea and land to accomplish their ends?�What Z no danger, when myriads of our working classes never enter the walls of our Church, and would not raise a finger to keep her alive, while by household suffrage they have got all power into their hands! What! no danger, when the Irish Church has been disestablished, the Act of Union has been trampled underfoot, Protestant endowments have been handed over to Papists, the thin edge of the wedge for severing Church and State has been let in, and the statesman who did all this is still alive, and thought by many to be infallible


    7. But instead dies thirsting or drowned… but not defeated


    8. None of the children lived long enough to meet the next brother, and they were steadily christened Bernhard, after a father apparently thirsting to perpetuate his name


    9. All the better to spread his message that he believed the multitudes were thirsting after


    10. She’s not a commodity, to be sold pre-packed to the thirsting masses

    11. And this takes no account of that which ought not to be forgotten in describing the genesis of the opinion—the action of 'seducing spirits and the teaching of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy,’ which may nevertheless be believed to have been concerned in re-establishing that primeval philosophy whispered in the ear of Eve, 'You shall not surely die! ’ If a few energetic preachers, in our own generation, reckless in uncritical assertion, ruthless in their treatment of opponents, and moderately well convinced of the truth of the tremendous doctrine they have espoused, are able to persuade so many modern multitudes of its truth, with the printed Bible under their eyes, it is easy to understand that the few scattered protests of the Ante-Nicene ages were feebly matched against the influence of numberless Christian teachers, maddened by the cruelty of the Roman Emperors, and thirsting for some vengeful threatening of hell-torment which might perchance scare the heathen into silence or submission


    12. She is simply thirsting to face some torture for someone, and if she can't get her torture, she'll throw herself out of a window


    13. Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhortations, entreaties, supplications, even tears--would you believe it, even tears? Think what the passion for propaganda will bring some girls to! I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjection of the


    14. Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!


    15. perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent


    16. But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the manner already described; for indignities offered to their charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for revenge


    17. When a democracy which is thirsting for freedom has evil cup-bearers presiding over the feast, and has drunk too deeply of the strong wine of freedom, then, unless her rulers are very amenable and give a plentiful draught, she calls them to account and punishes them, and says that they are cursed oligarchs


    18. “I’m thirsting to death!” called out Fred from his bedroom


    19. Canadian, still thirsting for the beast's blood, finally pierced it to the heart


    20. He had to take a minute or two's rest to recover his breath; then, gathering his wet skirts well over his arms, he started to run after the barge as fast as his legs would carry him, wild with indignation, thirsting for revenge

    21. as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjection of the female heart, a weapon which never fails one


    22. As higher education may be in a bubble, as college students are thirsting for better trading education, as trading is a performance activity like professional sports, as traders should develop a trading track record early, colleges need to offer a better trading curriculum or risk losing traders from their rolls


    23. I see college students thirsting for a real trading curriculum


    24. Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the revolution with a shade


    25. Quinn was thirsting now as strongly as Mona was, and it would see him through what we had to do


    26. All this I thought over and made perfectly clear to myself, sitting in Vassin's empty room, and it even occurred to me suddenly that I had come to Vassin's, so thirsting for his advice how to act, simply to show him what a generous and irreproachable person I was, and so to avenge myself for my humiliation before him the previous evening


    27. She is simply thirsting to face some torture for someone, and if she can’t get her torture, she’ll throw herself out of a window


    28. Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhortations, entreaties, supplications, even tears—would you believe it, even tears? Think what the passion for propaganda will bring some girls to! I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjection of the female heart, a weapon which never fails one


    29. ’ Why have I been longing for you? Why have I been thirsting for you all these days, and just now? (It's five days since I've cast anchor here


    30. He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and not simply for the sake of instructing them, but as though thirsting to share with all men and all creation his joy and ecstasy, and once more in his life to open his whole heart

    31. I've been watching for you! I've been thirsting for you! It's too much for me, that's the worst of it


    32. Know that I too have been in the wilderness, I too have lived on roots and locusts, I too prized the freedom with which Thou hast blessed men, and I too was striving to stand among Thy elect, among the strong and powerful, thirsting “to make up the number


    33. That's why I was thirsting for you


    34. ’ Oh, we are glad to believe it, we are eager to believe it, even if only on his word of honor! Are we jackals thirsting for human blood? Show us a single fact in the prisoner's favor and we shall rejoice; but let it be a substantial, real fact, and not a conclusion drawn from the prisoner's expression by his own brother, or that when he beat himself on the breast he must have meant to point to the little bag, in the darkness, too


    35. Forces are wasted in vain, and the masses, who at the present moment are thirsting for education, as the dried-up grass thirsts for rain, and are ready to receive it, and beg for it,—instead of a loaf receive a stone, and are perplexed to understand whether they were mistaken in regarding education as something good, or whether something is wrong in what is being offered to them


    36. He is hungering and thirsting for the word of life, and I thought—what a splendid nucleus that would be for a class


    1. Now the sun came out in earnest and it was stiflingly hot in the trench besides this hardly any of us had any water left and our thirsts were raging


    2. It was now summer on the peninsula and everything was covered in a thin layer of white dust that got everywhere and that made our raging thirsts even worse


    3. No one thirsts


    4. 1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no


    5. 1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and those who have no money; you come buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk


    6. indeed is the man who hungers and thirsts after righteousness! Matthew 5: 6


    7. The hand that thirsts for water,Cool and pure


    8. Chronic sin can be agonizing to the sincere believer who in his heart of hearts doesn’t want to keep on doing the wrong but sincerely thirsts after righteousness


    9. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost


    10. He taught that the truth-loving soul, the one who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, for God, is admitted by faith to the spiritual kingdom; at the same time the apostles taught that such a believer is admitted to the social organization of disciples by the outward rite of baptism

    11. When both cups were filled, they toasted and drank the bubbly liquid, letting the alcohol quench their burning thirsts


    12. “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink


    13. As long as days were passing by Usmaan and Meena, both the children were unable to bear their hungers and thirsts


    14. As the dark approached, the wild beasts started queuing at the shore of lust to quench their thirsts and hungers


    15. “O God, you are my God; early I will seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water


    16. rushed headlong in an effort to satisfy their team mates' unquenchable thirsts


    17. They chewed on snow to quench their thirsts and Soren returned to his sawing project


    18. does not understand that (hunger feeling) either, or why her throat feels a little dry (thirsts)


    19. Your body, like all organized gravitational masses including Eartheart, literally thirsts for music to help organize it, an overture of all its various influences giving rise to an operating system that is your body in your world


    20. She did not look up again but waited for a reply as the earth thirsts for the blessings of heaven! It seemed that he breathed life and tranquillity back into her heart with words overflowing with mercy and compassion, when he replied without any hesitation, ‘Welcome mother! My house is your house, to share!’

    21. She had a thirst for this book like dry land that thirsts for rain


    22. It took several trips to quench their thirsts


    23. That he made a gracious offer, that whosoever thirsts might come unto him and drink


    24. It thirsts for knowledge and experience


    25. of iced tea promised to soothe their burning thirsts


    26. He had reasoned life this: “this old fleshly body is full of burdens, it is broken down with infirmity, it has pains and sorrows, it hungers and thirsts, it gets cold and uncomfortable


    27. The body of Jesus, once wearied with toil, oppressed with hunger and thirst, subject to every sinless infirmity common to our frail nature, requiring sustenance, and shelter, and repose, and, above all, liable to the stroke of death, now hungers no more, neither thirsts any more; and, being transformed and glorified, is removed beyond the reach of evil, or of death


    28. breath of itches and thirsts,


    29. Then we may fairly assume that they are two, and that they differ from one another; the one with which a man reasons, we may call the rational principle of the soul, the other, with which he loves and hungers and thirsts and feels the flutterings of any other desire, may be termed the irrational or appetitive, the ally of sundry pleasures and satisfactions?


    30. "No," he muttered, "the doubt I felt was but the commencement of forgetfulness; but here the wound reopens, and the heart again thirsts for vengeance

    31. Ignominy thirsts for consideration


    32. Give thanks for thirsts and quenches,


    33. He thirsts to feel respect! Goodness, I thought, what would happen to you if you dared to print that nowadays?


    34. “Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards


    35. Forces are wasted in vain, and the masses, who at the present moment are thirsting for education, as the dried-up grass thirsts for rain, and are ready to receive it, and beg for it,—instead of a loaf receive a stone, and are perplexed to understand whether they were mistaken in regarding education as something good, or whether something is wrong in what is being offered to them


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    Synonyms for "thirst"

    hunger hungriness thirst thirstiness crave lust starve craving longing desire yearning hankering appetite eagerness

    "thirst" definitions

    a physiological need to drink


    strong desire for something (not food or drink)


    feel the need to drink


    have a craving, appetite, or great desire for