| 1. | He felt that he must slake the thirst in his throat. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | My first act on coming to this water was, of course, to slake my thirst. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | That never dared to slake his drouth. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 6. | Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 7. | The cart was returning empty to Paris, and the two lackeys had agreed, for their transport, to slake the wagoner's thirst along the route. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | It set us all on fire, and the moment they had done I slaked the fire within me in the capacious but tight cunt of my aunt, while uncle fucked her bottom-hole. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 10. | Is parchment, then, the holy fount before thee, A draught wherefrom thy thirst forever slakes No true refreshment can restore thee, Save what from thine own soul spontaneous breaks. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |