thirsting

• Though thirsting, the tired soldiers slept, oblivious to their physical sufferings. —  Memories
• And she was thirsting, as only a mother can, for the story of it So. —  The Heart of Unaga
• A life- thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine. The whole jury, as a jury of dogs empannelled to try the deer Every eye then turned to the five judges and the public prosecutor. —  A Tale of Two Cities
• But the enemy was lurking in ambush for him--thirsting for his blood. —  The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, ;c.;, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
• His hungering and thirsting is the divine pledge of the divine meal. —  Hope of the Gospel

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