Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
In the yellow sands and burnt by the sun, he doubtless peereth thirstily at the isles rich in fountains, where life reposeth under shady trees. But his thirst doth not persuade him to become like those comfortable ones: for where there are oases, there are also idols. Hungry, fierce, lonesome, God-forsaken: so doth the lion-will wish itself.
As a weary traveller drinks thirstily at a pool, Selwyn wandered about the streets trembling with emotion in the breathless ecstasy of the night. All day the conjured picture of the German boy, guilty of no crime save blind devotion to his Fatherland, had haunted him like the eyes of a murdered man.
When the water was brought she drank thirstily, and then, closing her eyes, sank back with something like a sigh of contentment. But with the first touch of the wet flannel which Jim again applied to her head she looked up. "I fell on the coal box," she said hastily. And before Jim could answer Peter spoke. "That's how we guessed," he said kindly. "Maybe you were stooping for coal sure."
His huge tail wagged incessantly, he panted thirstily with excitement, he frisked round and round my chair, he abased himself and kissed my feet and hands, he rubbed his stately head fondly against my knee. His frantic demonstrations of delight were watched by my wife and Ferrari with utter astonishment. I observed their surprise, and said lightly: "I told you how it would be!
Without calling upon a slave, a female servant, or even Chrysilla for the smallest office, the two prepared a couch on deck for the blind man, and, leaning on the girl's stronger arm, he went up into the open air. There he stretched both arms heavenward, inhaled deep breaths of the cool night breeze, and thirstily emptied the goblet of wine which Daphne mixed and gave him with her own hand.
They talked of many things, the adventures they had had, the curious people they had met in their adventuring, while Meggy listened to it all, drinking it in thirstily. "To think of all the things you've seen," she breathed at last. "An' I've spent all my time sence I was able to toddle, I reckon, betwixt our cabin an' the mine back an' forth, back an' forth "
He dared not run the risk of going farther down the trail. There were mussels and abalones around the next point. He would get them. By that time perhaps the men would be gone and he could return by the spring. The fog settled close about him, blinding his eyes and clinging to his shivering body. For a moment he stopped and sucked thirstily at the wet grass. Then he crawled on.
"One of those many singular circumstances which occur in life, and which are beyond all explanation." Gervase moved restlessly; then filling for himself a glass of claret, drained it off thirstily. "Something of the same kind has happened to me," he said with a hard, mirthless laugh, "for out of the most perfect beauty I have only succeeded in presenting an atrocity."
Burns caught up the pitcher, drank thirstily, drew his arm across his mouth and grinned through the window, meeting Jordan King's smiling gaze in return. "Company manners don't go when your hands are black, eh?" remarked the man inside. "Mechanics and surgeons seem a good deal alike at times," was the laughing reply. "Can't tell 'em apart. Your lily-handed surgeon is an anomaly.
He drank the water thirstily; then, reeling slightly still, from the weakness that was still upon him, he rose, rejecting their offers of aid. "Take me to him," he said simply.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking