Example Sentences

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He had not the passionate haste of one who has thirsted for some such community of assurance, and flies over the ground, plucking a leaf here and there, meaning to return.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

Who would blot these from his memory? who choke these fountain-heads, remembering how often along life's pathway he has thirsted for them?

From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward