insatiate
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Thus, on deceitful Etna's flow'ry side, Unfading verdure glads the roving eye; While secret flames, with unextinguish'd rage, Insatiate on her wasted entrails prey, And melt her treach'rous beauties into ruin.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
Insatiate thirst for knowledge, and boundless affection for Adrian, combined to keep both my heart and understanding occupied, and I was consequently happy.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Barksted is believed to have completed The Insatiate Countess after Marston's withdrawal from the stage in 1608 or 1609.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
Insatiate in experiment, intellectually as greedy as Aristotle, painter, poet, sculptor, engineer, architect, mathematician, chemist, botanist, aeronaut, musician and withal a dreamer and mystic, full accomplishment in any one department was not for him!
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William
Man's wants unnumbered and unsatisfied, And multiplied at every onward step— Insatiate as the cavernous maw of time.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
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