ATHIRST in a Sentence

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For ATHIRST, below is one of 2 sentences:
There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.

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 Meanings and Examples of ATHIRST
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athirst
 a.  very eager to get something; extremely desirous
Classic Sentence:
1  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
2  There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
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