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Definition of Thirsting
1. thirst [v] - See also: thirst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirsting
Literary usage of Thirsting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical treatises on the pathology and therapy of disorders of metabolism by Karl Harko von Noorden (1905)
"It was shown that the effect of thirsting was much more intense than the ...
Other investigations are concerned with the effect of thirsting upon the blood. ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"As I was thirsting for company quite as much as for wine, I bade mine host sit
at table with me and partake. I asked him (the calls of hunger partially ..."
3. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"This is implied in the blessing pronounced by our Lord upon the limited number
who are, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. ..."
4. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"As a matter of fact, the multitudes are not thirsting for the gospel. This is
implied in the blessing pronounced by our Lord upon the limited number who are ..."
5. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"As a matter of fact, the multitudes are not thirsting for the gospel. ...
Lord upon the limited number who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness. ..."
6. Meditations and Contemplations by James Hervey (1836)
"... sense o GUI aib sery, and "thirsting for salvation, we turn to him through, ,
to conclude, that, if there were heavier chah» per dungeon in the world of ..."
7. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... ing appellative. would have been as base and treacherous. of affection, their
plea will be admitted as ded the wants of those who were 'thirsting valid, ..."