1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par., 1 Peter, 7. Not to be supped lothesomly, but gredily, yea and thrustily.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. Wks. 1724, II. 427. Which she had drunk up thirstily.
c. 1665. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846), 403. A kinsman of his who thirstily aspired after preferment.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. iii. From such Fountain he draws, diligently, thirstily.