I wonder if my thirstiness is a symptom of some health concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen On Mars] Reference
And their blood thirstiness and none of that surprises me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2002] Reference
Then his brain flamed with the sole horror of thirstiness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
The war bloggers' blood-thirstiness is really boiling over. From Wordnik.com. [The hanging crimes of Howard Dean] Reference
The contention that we are cultivating the innate blood-thirstiness of our public, I regard as absurd. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Huge, shiny, gas-guzzling American cars not that their thirstiness matteredpetrol was plentiful at just a few cents a gallon. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers & Sons] Reference
Let slaveholders say what they will about our blood-thirstiness, there is not one of them who fears to put himself in our power. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
Kai fought to get to his father, with a single-minded ferocity that frightened Alaire, and a blood-thirstiness that astounded him. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Of Souls]
After ROMEO's soliloquy, which, perhaps, has produced a thirstiness among the audience, resulting in several orders for drinks having been given. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891] Reference
Zeke promptly sat up and put his lips to the mouth of the flask, and held them there while the rhythmic movement of his adam's apple visibly witnessed thirstiness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
And then he seemed a moderate and gracious governor, more especially as compared to his son Ochus, who outdid all his predecessors in blood-thirstiness and cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Broader dangers of the seal hunt include: accidentally clubbing one's own shin, chapped lips, having to get up early, thirstiness, and the all too common: red snowball fight. From Wordnik.com. [Ryan Reynolds: The Canadian Club Scene] Reference
This thirstiness of bricks is their greatest fault. From Wordnik.com. [Diggers in the Earth] Reference
They mingled horrible levity with their blood-thirstiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference
Therein is our blood-thirstiness, beside which that of the Southern. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions and Comments] Reference
Even nowadays, though, the thirstiness of mankind is something supernatural. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
They trickle down through the city swallowed by its thirstiness and disappear. From Wordnik.com. [in my falling country] Reference
If there was a war he would have to bear marching and thirstiness and, perhaps, deep wounds. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time] Reference
"I'm afraid your blood-thirstiness won't be gratified this time," answered the first speaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke of Stockbridge] Reference
That night the Chileans broke into the liquor store-houses and soon drunkenness increased their natural blood thirstiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
One of this last-named sort had attained to State celebrity in the annals of crime and blood-thirstiness before my arrival. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
Page 224 of malice, of blood thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense — of supreme despair. From Wordnik.com. [Tales.] Reference
Blood-thirstiness was a passion unknown to him; but that tenderness which with us creates a horror of blood was equally unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
The frightening ruthlessness and blood thirstiness of some jihadist terrorists is a signature mark of the Nietzschean-Nazi touch. From Wordnik.com. [RenewAmerica] Reference
The unlimited selfishness, the love of inflicting pain, the blood-thirstiness, thus kept active, he brings with him into the social state. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
In this, however, he wronged Cromwell, who was free either from an extreme degree of jealous suspicion, or from any thing which approached towards blood-thirstiness. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
In the whistling swoop of the grey goshawk there is a note of ominous blood-thirstiness, silent though the destroyer has sat awaiting the moment for swift and decisive action. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
The peculiar shape of his lips denote blood-thirstiness, and his nose, which seems rather finely formed to the casual observer, is the nose of a person utterly without conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Bravery] Reference
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