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The one, for that your Lordships honourable disposition is in the knowledge of all men that know your selfe, most thirstingly affected to embrace in your owne person, the brauest enterprises, if the time would once afford anie such fit occasion, as might be agreeable to her
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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She swung on her revolving stool away from her machine and looked eagerly, thirstingly towards the windows where the other girls were crowding for breath of the fresh June air, but she did not stir to follow them.
Little Lost Sister Virginia Brooks
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He would rather have looked upon the desert under a sand-storm, or upon a London suburb yet he looked thirstingly.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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He would rather have looked upon the desert under a sand-storm, or upon a London suburb yet he looked thirstingly.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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When you (inevitably) run into one of those blood-thirsty Muslims who threatens to slit your throat (and by definition, they are all blood thirstingly bent on throat-slitting), you chant very quickly, "There is no God but God, and Mohammed (praised be his name) is his only prophet.
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a sand-storm, or upon a London suburb yet he looked thirstingly.
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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