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By the time Wilson took his turn to speak, delegates were thirsting for uplift.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, in the National Football League championship, the Champion Packers faced their sternest test of the season; the New York Giants, humbled 37-0 by Green Bay last year, were thirsting for revenge.

From Time Magazine Archive

St. Cloud, Meudon, Versailles, Robinson, were crowded every night with people who were thirsting for air and food after long hot days in the dust and struggles of the exposition.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

The husband could not catch it—not though his eyes were thirsting for the blessed ray.

From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Crane, Walter

It seemed as if his brain were thirsting.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)