And the gamble paid off: Britons of the time thirsted for images of backwoods America.
AS YOU will know if you have ever thirsted for a nip of alcohol in Utah, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has great influence in certain western states.
Ever since then Iranians have thirsted for democracy.
From the start the Parliament of 1626 was badly managed, and members of both houses thirsted for Buckingham's blood.
Incensed by More's boycott, Anne thirsted for revenge after discovering that, although some friends of his had urged him to attend her coronation and he'd accepted £20 from them to buy a new gown, he'd stayed at home, jesting with his benefactors'.
Easily enraged, Spark always demanded inordinate levels of attention and discretion; she thirsted for respect and invited protection, but, as her biographer amply demonstrates, "the border between protection and oppression was always narrow".
"I... longed to do heroic deeds with my bare hands, thirsted to be kind to people, particularly the weak and humble and oppressed.
"Like Eve, I thirsted after forbidden knowledge," she confides to her "spiritual diary"; instead, her fate is indentured servitude in the "vile town" of Cambridge.
"Like Eve," the narrator confides in her "spiritual diary," "I thirsted after forbidden knowledge".
Francisco wrote that he considered it his responsibility to teach these poor gringos to curse with dignity, and this was, as far as he could tell, the only linguistic knowledge they truly thirsted for.
In any case, no one can doubt that the maker of "The Art of Painting" — a masterpiece's masterpiece, showing a painter portraying a model who is done up as Clio, the muse of history — thirsted for glory.
