insatiate
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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
Culling life's blossoms here and there, With his mind entangled by pleasures' delay, Insatiate in desire, Death makes him his bondsman and takes him away.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Woodward, Frank Lee
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
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
Insatiate Countess, a Tragedy, acted at White-Fryars, printed in Quarto 1603, under the title of Isabella the insatiable countess of Suevia.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus
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