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

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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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

They are not insatiate, they would perhaps be contented with a far more moderate lot.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Ghirlandajo was an insatiate worker, and expressed a wish that he had the entire circuit of the walls of Florence to paint upon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various