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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was, perhaps, the absence of playmates, and the habitual converse with mature minds which, at so early an age, inspired Jane with that insatiate thirst for knowledge which she ever manifested.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

But the cunning of a man crazed by his insatiate appetite outwits them; and over and over the turbid roll of his speech—with flashing splendors in it, that give no light—betrays him.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

The insatiate conqueror had no thought of leaving a great state like Prussia undisturbed.

From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt

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 Lee, Eliza Buckminster