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  • Thirst is the desire of drink to refresh, such as justifying righteousness, and the sense of our pardon.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • 282 Thirst is the strongest of all pleas to an Eastern, especially to a Persian who never forgets the sufferings of his Imam, Husayn, at Kerbela: he would hardly withhold it from the murderer of his father.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thus while the meditation "On Thirst" is followed, logically enough, by a meditation "On

    Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

  • I have, to note, taken recommendations from this web site, such as Darren Rovell’s “First in Thirst” and Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink”, and bought the books.

    How Much Do Book Blurbs Matter? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Writing about Vandana Singh's story "Thirst", Dan Hartland says, "Indeed, 'Thirst' is a largely mimetic piece, which opens itself to the fantastic only towards its close..." and then at the end of the paragraph finishes by saying, "two planes often opposed to each other in fiction co-exist and co-mingle, rendering metaphor, allegory and mimesis one".

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Writing about Vandana Singh's story "Thirst", Dan Hartland says, "Indeed, 'Thirst' is a largely mimetic piece, which opens itself to the fantastic only towards its close..." and then at the end of the paragraph finishes by saying, "two planes often opposed to each other in fiction co-exist and co-mingle, rendering metaphor, allegory and mimesis one".

    "Mimetic Fiction" 2009

  • (And that shewed He where He shewed [me] understanding of the ghostly Thirst, that is the love-longing that shall last till Doomsday.)

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

  • The black-and-white film is set in a German village on the eve of World War I. Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director who took Cannes 'Grand Prix, the second-highest award, in 2004 with his gory "Oldboy," is back in competition with his new film, "Thirst" - about a priest who becomes a vampire.

    Freep.com - RSS 2009

  • The black-and-white film is set in a German village on the eve of World War I. Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director who took Cannes 'Grand Prix, the second-highest award, in 2004 with his gory "Oldboy," is back in competition with his new film, "Thirst" - about a priest who becomes a vampire.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2009

  • The black-and-white film is set in a German village on the eve of World War I. Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director who took Cannes 'Grand Prix, the second-highest award, in 2004 with his gory "Oldboy," is back in competition with his new film, "Thirst" - about a priest who becomes a vampire.

    unknown title 2009

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