For gambling the man had an insatiable thirst; he played once for forty hours without intermission; it was death to refuse a game with him; no one might cease playing without his express commands; no one durst win the stakes; and as a consequence, he accumulated at cards in a few years almost all the coined money then existing in the province.

The dusty roads, the intolerable thirst, and the nauseous, tepid water, the blistered feet, the abraded hips, where the cartridge-box began to wear the fleshall these woes of the march were ignored in the one impulse to see the ground ahead, to note the first sight of the enemy.

Let us endeavour to examine the question, neither with the cold prejudice of antiquity on the one hand; nor on the other, with the too eager thirst of novelty, and unbounded admiration of the geniuses, by whom it has been attacked.

Passing Eivé as I turned towards Eveena's room, and fevered with intense thirst, I bade her bring me thither a cup of the carcarâ.

Indeed, the mere reading about football matches and the like created an unquenchable thirst in cowboys and sheep-herders.

The fourth, the excessive thirst for pleasure as the great aim of life.

Then, too, there is dryness of the mouth, an unnatural thirst that demands drink.

They are subject to thirst and hunger, unable to command a cup of water or a crumb of bread.

That there is a true solution of the riddle, and that in our present state that solution is unattainable by us, are propositions which may be regarded as equally certain: meanwhile, as it is the province of the poet to attach himself to those ideas which exalt and ennoble humanity, let him be permitted to have conjectured the condition of that futurity towards which we are all impelled by an inextinguishable thirst for immortality.

Though so weak he could not dress without assistance, he no sooner found himself on the move, and out of doors, than he began to feel stronger and better; he had no object in driving beyond change of scene, air, and exercise; but it will not surprise those who have suffered from the cruel thirst and longing which accompanies such mental maladies as his, that he should have directed the cabman to proceed to Berners Street.

Love, on the contrary, is an universal thirst for a communion, not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature, intellectual, imaginative, and sensitive.

To them, liberty, the desire for which caused them to brave the greatest dangers, was simply the right of doing evilof obeying their ardent thirst for plunder.

The fierce thirst, which, with these men, is not a consequence, because it is a thing that was and is and ever will be, was brought vividly to their minds by this unnecessary adstimulation; and now the bar-keeper, whose lager-beer was wellnigh exhausted, from its connection with ham-sandwiches, had enough to do to furnish them with whiskey, of which stimulant there was but too large a supply on hand.

They came not from a feverish thirst for gold, nor with ambitious visions of a new and powerful empire.

In all three we find the same ghastly pallor, the same sleeplessness which compelled them to rise, and pace their rooms at night, the same incessant suspicion; the same inordinate thirst for cruelty and torture.

It was evident that the sleeper, in his haste to quench an abnormal thirst, had broken the water jug.

Yes, I would write my name With the star's burning ray on heaven's broad scroll, That I might still the restless thirst for fame Which fills my soul.

You kneel on the boulders, bend your head, and take such draughts as only the healthy thirst of the mountains can give.

The animal, of course, throws up its head, and the stupid teamster, as a general thing, drives the mule away from the water with his thirst about half satisfied.

Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst.

Ambition is a proud covetousness, a dry thirst of honour, the longing disease of reason, an aspiring and gallant madness.

My tongue became as parched as charcoal: had I been choking with ashes, my throat could not have been filled with more horrible thirst.

The little brutes throve wonderfully, and soon developed such an appetite that I had to get no less than six goats to satisfy their constant thirst.

The dead heat of the tropics was felt in all its power by the helpless voyagers; they languished and fainted with a continual thirst; and, horrible to relate, the water was failing, for they had thrown so much overboard, that they were limited to a very small allowancea cupful at most.

But they never give it a thought; the bloody thirst for destruction which possesses them allows them only to think of one thing, of killing!