Petty, shade, and thirst are my favorite human “virtues” and the trifecta of any good series of “stories.”
This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.
The hunger usually subsides quickly, but thirst sometimes causes serious pain.
In North Carolina, they let a 54-year-old untreated schizophrenic die of thirst after 35 days in solitary confinement.
In response, voters thought voting for Madison was inconsistent with their thirst for free booze.
Our allies are the millions who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Never again will the insatiable thirst of the fire-fiend be so pampered.
In these terms did Mr Verloc declare his thirst for revenge.
On the present occasion, his native powers were stimulated by the thirst of revenge.
Mr. Clawbonny, it is a desert, but we shant die of thirst in it at any rate.
Old English þurst, from West Germanic *thurstus (cf. Old Saxon thurst, Frisian torst, Dutch dorst, Old High German and German durst), from Proto-Germanic *thurs-, from PIE root *ters- "dry" (see terrain). Figurative sense of "vehement desire" is attested from c.1200.
Old English þyrstan (see thirst (n.)); the figurative sense of the verb was present in Old English. Related: Thirsted; thirsting.
thirst (thûrst)
n.
A sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat related to a need or desire to drink.
The desire or need to drink.
