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

How many of the insatiate devourers of fiction who feed voraciously on the paper-covered volumes of the news-stand have ever heard of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph for example?

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander

No fiery dragon in the days of myth Laid waste a land or blasted life with breath More foul or appetite insatiate.

From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton

The habits and instincts of the animal change; it becomes diurnal in its habits, not choosing the night for its search of food; is more insatiate in its appetite, and the tendency to obesity increases.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George