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In Pakistan’s Punjab Province, over-pumping is lowering the water table by up to a half-meter (20 inches) per year, threatening future food and water security and making thirsty crops like sugarcane and rice tougher to grow.
Currently, both countries’ economies are thrusting confidently forward; both are thirsty for more and bigger markets.
As anyone who has recently tried to buy a beer in Stockholm knows, you will remain thirsty if all you have is a wallet full of cash.
Next time, China could well demand something in return, and a desperately thirsty country may not be able to refuse.
African cities are full of creative traders negotiating prices, supplying jerseys for sports events, and selling drinks to thirsty drivers stuck in traffic jams.
And he replied with his gentle voice, almost without an accent:"I am thirsty when I eat."
Never had there been a less thirsty strike; the drunkards had shut themselves up at home for fear of disobeying the sober word of command.
"When one talks one gets thirsty."
"I am thirsty; oh! so thirsty," she sighed.
Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie.
Those judges so steeped in formalities, so thirsty for the blood of the wretched prisoner, who would have the best of citizens hanged in order to hang a Cross from their own buttonholes ...I should remove myself from their power, from their insults in bad French, which the local newspaper will proceed to call eloquence.
Look," she pointed to the captain's door, from under which there was a light shining, "he's put a light on and he's laughing at us.""Alright, I'm coming," said K., moved forward, took hold of her, kissed her on the mouth and then over her whole face like a thirsty animal lapping with its tongue when it eventually finds water.
George said he felt thirsty (I never knew George when he didn't); and, as I had a presentiment that a little whisky, warm, with a slice of lemon, would do my complaint good, the debate was, by common assent, adjourned to the following night; and the assembly put on its hats and went out.
Harris did not feel thirsty, either, and followed suit.
The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood- thirsty when in a boat.
As soon as, more drenched than thirsty, they were landed, Sancho went down on his knees and with clasped hands and eyes raised to heaven, prayed a long and fervent prayer to God to deliver him evermore from the rash projects and attempts of his master.
'I'm afeered, mum,' said Sam, 'that this here gen'l'm'n, with the twist in his countenance, feels rather thirsty, with the melancholy spectacle afore him.
"Pardon, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux, if I don’t stand upon ceremony," said d’Artagnan, "but nothing makes one so thirsty as want of sleep.
At first, I was wondering that I was no longer thirsty, and I was for asking for the reason.
Though there was a stream of traffic upon the road, the coaches from Brighton were too fresh to stop, and those from London too eager to reach their journey's end, so that if it had not been for an occasional broken trace or loosened wheel, the landlord would have had only the thirsty throats of the village to trust to.
"The boys were thirsty, sir, so I brought up some ale and some liptrap," whispered the landlord; "I thought you would have no objection, sir.""Quite right, Bob!How are you all?
If sorrow was thirsty, there was drink--if hungry, there was food--if it sunk down upon and saddened the heart, here were the means supplied of mirth, or at least of amusement.
When he came up to me I found he had been quite home for an earthen jug or pot, to bring his father some fresh water, and that he had got two more cakes or loaves of bread: the bread he gave me, but the water he carried to his father; however, as I was very thirsty too, I took a little of it.
When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.
But you eat nothing: you have scarcely tasted since you began tea.""No: I am too thirsty to eat.
He was thirsty and hot, his heart beat wildly.
And as he was very thirsty he lighted his candle togo to drink a glass of fresh water from the filter in the kitchen.
"Oh, I am so thirsty!" cried Mme.
Thou, divine one, count even this as a merit to me that I have emptied it of the liquid with which I had filled it before, and that I do not withdraw it, but hold it forth as a thirsty man standing at a pure spring.
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