Which preposition to use with slaking
Construe: Slake with tears and sighs a wound in thy heart's corea wound more fierce than his.'
He will awake no more, oh never more! 'Wake thou,' cried Misery, 'childless Mother; Rise Out of thy sleep, and slake in thy heart's core A wound more fierce than his, with tears and sighs.
No thirst its suffering Shall better slake for my surrendering My life!
E'en so the fire struck from my soul, that lay Close-hidden in my heart, may temper me, Till burned and slaked to better life I rise.
Cement stones are also calcined; but the resulting material will not fall to pieces or slake under water.
It was also in part a fight between the law-abiding and the lawless, and in part a slaking of savage personal animosities, wherein the borderers glutted their vengeance on one another.