1 Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
2 My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
3 This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.
4 I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
5 I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.
6 I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fatal secret.
7 Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
8 He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.
9 Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
10 His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.
11 All the while he felt as if he were still kissing her, and yet dying of thirst for her lips.
12 Atlanta was wild with excitement, pleasure and a hot thirst for vengeance.
13 Her tongue was furred and her throat parched as if flames had scorched it and no amount of water could assuage her thirst.
14 Now, with a start of inner wonder, Lily felt that her thirst for retaliation had died out.
15 By and by he found a comfortable spot, and there he devoured his meal, slaking his thirst at the stream.