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Definition of Thirsters
1. thirster [n] - See also: thirster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirsters
Literary usage of Thirsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young People's Story of Music by Ida Prentice Whitcomb (1908)
"They called themselves " The Thirsters," and a basket overflowing with grapes was
... Just now, Palestrina was the fashion of the day, and " The Thirsters ..."
2. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1902)
"Musics-father than literature was the domain of the Thirsters ("Degli Alterati").
And yet the classical Italian opera was, in its original inception, ..."
3. Makers of Song by Anna Alice Chapin (1904)
""Euterpe" was a fitting goddess for the Thirsters, and Peri was not the only one
who hung upon her censure or praise. As seen across the gulf of over three ..."
4. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Be glutted, ye thirsters after human blood—Come, see me suffer—mark my eye, and
scorn 'me, if my expiring soul confesses fear—Come, see and be taught virtue ..."
5. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"In that these thirsters after gold and human blood will be disappointed. No Perus
or Mexicos here they'll find; but the demon you speak of, tho' he acts in ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"The thirsters after gold, the seekers of El Dorado, were Argonauts in search of
the golden fleece. Yet the resemblance fails when we come to consider ..."
7. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"The thirsters after gold, the seekers of El Dorado, were Argonauts in search of
the golden fleece. Yet the resemblance fails when we come to consider the ..."
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