Surely this was what existence strained to be, and so rarely had the chance: to savor itself fully in the present... the smooth darkening summer air, the scent of thyme crushed underfoot, her hunger, her slaked thirst, the warm stone she could feel through her shirt, the aftertaste of peach, the stickiness on her hand, her tired legs, her sweaty, sunny, dusty fatigue.
Not only does the water rehydrate the body, Dr. DeLue said, but it also reduces the desire to consume more alcohol to slake thirst.
Clean, plentiful water is important not just for its immediate benefit — it slakes thirst — but for its long-term importance: It improves citizens' health.
Patrons can catch the Irish news on television Tuesday evenings, and almost any night there is an abundance of delicious conversation and lively debate that can bruise egos but never slake thirst.
No one has come up with anything better for slaking thirst than water - not from a cleft rock in the Dolomites or a miraculously carbonated spring in the Alps, just simple tap water populated by friendly local bacteria.
"Hose and Beer", it reads, advertising a place to wash down a mount post-ride, as well as to slake thirst with a shared pitcher of lager.
I was able to retrace the horror of the men marching to the front in stifling heat, slaking thirst in mud puddles and satisfying hunger with half-ripened fruit.
The signature metaphor for this species of emergence is water: the individual molecules of H2O don't exhibit properties like coolness or liquidity or the ability to slake thirst -- those all emerge at a macro-scale when masses of molecules are lumped together.
The George and Pilgrims' is about as old as English inns get, slaking thirsts when the abbey was still a going concern, and should satisfy connoisseurs of low beams, nooks and crannies.
Open daily 11am-2am Bowling, shuffleboard, ping pong, pool, music, and punch bowls filled with booze – this new, giant, multi-level bar offers a little friendly competition as well as slaking thirsts.
Even in the relatively water-rich Hudson Valley, our H2O supplies face progressively increasing stress from climate change and companies hankering to slake thirsts in drier regions by getting hold of our own "excess" water supplies.
