An insatiate appetite. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : insatiate greed. From Dictionary.com.
May their saints propitiate this insatiate thirst!. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
O hapless women, and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin!. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Surely not much to do with 9/11 outrage and insatiate revenge?. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Americans Always Enjoy Hearing Enemy Body Counts �� So do Suicide Bomber Recruits] Reference
She had no words for the vague, insatiate hunger to understand. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
O insatiate brute, and most disgusting, brazen, and scaly reptile!. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
He drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Fuel, fuel both, all the world over, to flames insatiate and devouring. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Tell him, ye insatiate ones, who have new wants and new ideas every day!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
In all his greeds and lusts man is ever wanting, insatiate and ungratified. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
She ignored the protests of her stomach, which had been left insatiate for days. From Wordnik.com. [WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE] Reference
My soul has been spoiled by the world, my imagination is unquiet, my heart insatiate. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
It is slavery with its insatiate demand for more slave territory and more slave States. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Cakes in this world will grow by being fed on, if only the feeder be not too insatiate. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Large meals were prepared in this room, cauldrons of stew for the insatiate hunger of eight. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
Who rend the unborn brood, insatiate — Yea, loathes their banquet on the quivering hare. From Wordnik.com. [Agamemnon] Reference
The grip of insatiate despotism on Democratic institutions was effectually loosened far and wide. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
But necessity, bitter and insatiate, compels me to abide and abiding to put food in my cursed belly. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Not as with some men now, the light of whose reason is obscured by insatiate greed with its blind maw. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
'Fool!' returned the frail lady -- 'you cannot understand the fiery and insatiate cravings of my passions. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
No substitute will do; no ransom can purchase relief; insatiate as the grave, every fibre cries, Give, give!. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
And if, insatiate, the enquirer had gone on, “You do not look, then, for spiritual union in this marriage?”. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
When the effects wear off, proportionate lassitude follows, which begets an insatiate and insane craving for the drug. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
To this trio everybody in the court possessed of sixpence has an insatiate desire to exhibit hospitality in a liquid form. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Meanwhile there were shrill sounds of wailing over each one of the exiles even from outsiders, and insatiate floods of tears. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
Year, as it succeeds year, sees them driven farther west, as their hunting-grounds are absorbed by the insatiate white races. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
How shall a yearning for that insatiate resting-place ever hasten for thee, poor reckless one, the end that death alone can bring?. From Wordnik.com. [Medea] Reference
These hitherto insatiate gentlemen replied that they wanted nothing, adding pleasantly that they were well content with what they had. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
I resorted then, as many times since, to every means in order to get that which would, and yet would not, satisfy my insatiate thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
I do not learn, however, that Cicero was cured of his eager vanity and his insatiate love of fame by this "turn" among the Syracusan tombs. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
An insatiate reader and admirable man, he wrote partly from irrepressible instinct and partly to support his own family and at times, as we have seen, that of Coleridge. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Virginia groaned beneath the accumulated oppressions of Charles the Second and his insatiate minions. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Grantham] Reference
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