insatiate

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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.

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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 Burney, James

Upon such trifles will envy condescend to feed its insatiate appetite.

From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Hedge, Mary Ann

There were no seals visible,—they have retreated before the attacks and stratagems of their insatiate pursuer the seal-hunter, and for a long period have ceased to frequent the island.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Free yourselves from your own passions and insatiate greed and lo! you shall go out poor as a mendicant.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar