Sentence examples for athirst from inspiring English sources

But Ahab waits still longer to reveal the true objective of the voyage: to wreak vengeance upon the great white whale "athirst for human blood" that on a previous voyage had dashed his boat to splinters and ripped him half to death.

Like many other Dreyfusards, he was to be disillusioned by the aftermath of the Affair, a response typified by his extended satire of French society through the ages in L'Île des Pingouins (1908; Penguin Island) and his condemnation of fanaticism in his novel on the French Revolution, Les Dieux ont soif (1912; The Gods Are Athirst).

However, Les Dieux ont soif (1912; The Gods are Athirst) and L'Île des Pingouins (1908; Penguin Island) show little belief in the ultimate arrival of a fraternal society.