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insatiate

[in-sey-shee-it] / ɪnˈseɪ ʃi ɪt /






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Then on to the insatiate facts: one family in five had $3,000 to spend in 1932, the average weekly wage of factory workers was $16.21, the cost of a Chevy was $445, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her ambition was equally insatiate, and generally successful: but in one memorable instance she overshot her mark.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

The insatiate colonists did not stop: many of the mines lay unproductive for want of labourers, and they bent their efforts to the supplying this defect.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

But that melted heart of his longed for its fellows, and for all whom it knew and loved; it throbbed insatiate in this lonely prison-cell, our life; it yearned to love all humanity.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Even love, long tried, and cherished long, Becomes more tender, and more strong, At thought of that insatiate grave From which its yearnings cannot save.

From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee




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