Example Sentences

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The slakeless thirst still clung to me; and water, instead of allaying it, seemed only to increase its intensity.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Dickinson, Asa Don

I was tortured with a slakeless thirst that grew fiercer as I gazed on the flowing water.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

But, I fear, the spirit of adventure—its thirst—is within me slakeless.

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne