The surface of the stone was as bare as it was upon the night that we had investigated it, and we began to think that death by starvation and thirst would probably be our fate.

By the middle of the afternoon his thirst had become sheer torture.

A thirst for fame is not a weakness.

It was sundown again before he gave up hope, and Casey's thirst was a demon within him.

Certainly we are not dreamers; certainly God has given us practical activity; certainly, whatever we misunderstand, this we can understand, the thirst of the soul for God is the thirst to love goodness because it is right.

The monarch shares it with the peasant, and Nature takes care that as the thirst for her society is the universal passion, the power of gratifying it shall be more or less within the reach of all.

Thirst, intolerable and choking, was a greater pain in those hot dog-days and in those tedious interminable journeys.

It is indeed certain, that an Englishman expects his eye, as well as his ear, to be diverted by theatrical exhibition; but the thirst of novelty was another and separate reason which affected the style of the revived drama.

Now this thirst is prayer.

Grown people drink anything but water, because this fluid is intended to quench only a natural thirst; and natural thirst is a thing which they seldom feel.

[Southey]; their fatal hands no second stroke intend [Paradise Lost]; thirst for glory quells the love of life [Addison].