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• I mean no thirst such as any liquid may slake, but the thirst for knowledge, for education, for wisdom and for that self-betterment which must accompany all. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
• Glazing.=--Glaze is known to the trade under several names, such as slake, finish, and telegraph; it is used only for cheap work, when economy of time is a consideration, and is made as follows: mastic, 1 oz. —  French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction
• When the lime begins to slake, add the sulfur and stir together. —  Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
• When the winter doth once begin there it doth still more and more increase by a perpetuitie of cold: neither doth that colde slake, vntill the force of the Sunne beames doth dissolue the cold, and make glad the earth, returning to it againe. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
• As the scent of a violet withered up, Which grew by the brink of a silver lake, When the hot noon has drained its dewy cup 15 And mist there was none its thirst to slake-- And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue 4. —  The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete

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