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Updated: May 15, 2025
He had obtained a scanty supply of thirst quenching stuff from the pulpy insides of cactus and maguey leaves, but when the aviators had discovered him he had been in the last stages of death from thirst and exhaustion the death that so many men on the alkali have met alone and bravely.
"I will!" cried Dick Harris, glad of the chance to handle a nozzle, even if it was only a small one, and unreeling the garden hose Cole had attached to his beloved pump, he started toward the burning butcher shop. The young firemen soon found they had all they could do in quenching this fire. It was the fiercest one they had yet undertaken to subdue.
It does not follow: there are strange depths of idleness in man, a too-easily-got sufficiency, as in the case of the sago-eaters, often quenching the desire for all besides; and it is possible that the men of the richest ant-heaps may sink even into squalor.
Among the number was a little fellow with a cadaverous face, about as large as two farthings' worth of butter, who declared, in a long speech with flat rhymes, that an Asiatic harem was not capable of quenching his ardent love of pleasure.
Indeed, I'm sort of a guardian angel to him, having saved his life many a time." "Saved his life!" ejaculated the landlord. "How?" "By quenching his consuming genius with good dinners. But come solve for me this riddle in brown.
The bailiff hurried away to the wood-yard, accompanied by Dunn and another man carrying a tall ladder. The farm-servants had ceased from their futile efforts at quenching the fire by this time. It was a labour too hopeless to continue. The flames had spread to the west wing. The ivy was already crackling, as the blaze crept over it.
Higher and higher mount the flames. "Come, jump into it!" she cries out to me, and instead of quenching the flame she pours forth more alcohol into the furious conflagration. "For heaven's sake!" I cry out. "Do you know now who I am?" she giggles. "I'm a witch!" With jubilant screams she loosens her hair of reddish gold which now falls about her with a flaming glory.
We made a hasty breakfast off a star-fish that we found stranded on the beach; but this rather increased our painful thirst, and to find some means of quenching it we hurried inland at the utmost speed which our weakened powers could command. We had not run far before we came to a large house. "There is sure to be a supply of water here," said Whiskerandos. "Let us explore the place."
Several hundred people during five months in every year depend entirely on that source for all the water they use. With their frail pitchers and flaring torches they wend their way, gasping for breath, through the intricate passages, and reaching the water, are so profusely perspiring that they must wait before quenching their thirst.
We landed on the big island and went ashore. We tried the water in the canteens, now, and found that the sun had spoiled it; it was so brackish that we could not drink it; so we poured it out and began a search for the spring for thirst augments fast as soon as it is apparent that one has no means at hand of quenching it.
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