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  • She would consume him with her insatiable demands.†   (source)
  • She hadn't yet seen it eat, but word was it was insatiable and very quick.†   (source)
  • How about I use my insatiable cupidity to beat the crap out of you?†   (source)
  • In Fenoglio's eyes Meggie saw the same insatiable hunger for a good new story that overcame her at the sight of any new and exciting book.†   (source)
  • A child's endless energy and my own insatiable lust for knowledge made the following year one of the happiest times I can remember.†   (source)
  • My wife was an insatiable sociopath before.†   (source)
  • Reading had become his insatiable vice.†   (source)
  • Do you realize that your insatiable pull for all things deadly was strong enough to recover a pack of mutant canines from extinction?†   (source)
  • He also had an insatiable appetite for mangoes, which fell by the dozens in the backyard.†   (source)
  • …Nadia journeyed to the sea, and stood on a rock, and put bread on the hook, and tried to fish, alone, two people by themselves, all but surrounded by water the breeze was chopping into opaque hillocks, concealing what lay beneath, and they fished and fished for hours, taking turns, but neither of them knew how to fish, or maybe they were just unlucky, and though they felt nibbles, they caught nothing, and it was as though they were merely feeding their bread to the insatiable brine.†   (source)
  • When I looked at humans, all I could feel was an insatiable craving to be inside their bodies.†   (source)
  • They do not realize that Galbatorix's hunger for power is insatiable and that he will not rest until all of Alagaesia lies at his feet.†   (source)
  • Moody was convinced that money-hungry American arms merchants could not ignore a customer with such an insatiable appetite.†   (source)
  • He would never be able to forget Leona's pale, startled eyes, her sweet smile, her plaintive drawl, her thin, insatiable body.†   (source)
  • The knowledge is a demon gnawing insatiably at my mind.†   (source)
  • Nothing the firemen or citizens of Chicago did seemed to stop the fire's insatiable quest for fuel.†   (source)
  • But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other people?†   (source)
  • At times the urge to strike a light was well-nigh insatiable.†   (source)
  • I seduce them, draw them close to me, with an insatiable hunger, a constant never-ending search for something …. something, I don't know what it is ….†   (source)
  • Then he massaged her with brandy and gunpowder, but it was all useless; Pancha's life ebbed away in an interminable case of diarrhea that destroyed her body and left her with an insatiable thirst.†   (source)
  • Milo's planes shuttled back and forth seven days a week as every officer in the four squadrons began devouring fresh eggs in an insatiable orgy of fresh-egg eating.†   (source)
  • He hadn't eaten in months, in eager anticipation of that insatiable need pushing him through the capture and, perhaps, the kill.†   (source)
  • The man was driven by an insatiable thirst for power, and the men he worked for even more so.†   (source)
  • I'm smitten by an insatiable desire for you.†   (source)
  • He boarded with a local physician whose collection of medical books helped satisfy his insatiable appetite for reading.†   (source)
  • "It seems likely that was less about helping Sebastian than about her own insatiable desire to know everything," Robert said.†   (source)
  • Its overnight transformation into a community of a hundred thousand was part of a pattern of insatiable development that dismayed traditional Californians, who saw more and more of their original landscape bulldozed by developers.†   (source)
  • It went beyond mere hunger and was, instead, an all-consuming need to feed a body whose demands for energy were becoming insatiable.†   (source)
  • It was all paternalism, my insatiable desire to be the benevolent tyrant dispensing tawdry gifts and moldy foodstuffs to the subjects who stumbled into the spiritual famine of my sad kingdom.†   (source)
  • I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb--this animal barely up from the apes--will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets--to the stars and beyond--carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency.†   (source)
  • An artilleryman arrived periodically to check coordinates, writing everything down in a book, explaining that his profession was now practiced mainly at night by men who didn't need to see for themselves but who took in numbers insatiably.†   (source)
  • It will take me that long to properly instruct Regis on the course of action that he must take with his peers, for he must carry the tidings of the coming invasion" "Rumblebelly?" snorted Bruenor, using the name he had tagged on Regis for the halfling's insatiable appetite.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me she was distracted at first, then suddenly she was wild, insatiable.†   (source)
  • What there was not was excess space, and what there was of it belonged to their own, not outsiders, unless an outsider — brought in by one of their own — also brought in money to feed the insatiable machine that produced a vast array of worldly goods, and some not so much worldly as other-worldly.†   (source)
  • Later, when the mosquito population reached full flowering, I stayed in the tent practically all of the time unless there was a strong wind blowing, for the most bloodthirsty beasts in the Arctic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.†   (source)
  • It was an accurate enough name, for his curiosity and appetite for statistics were insatiable.†   (source)
  • …overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, viciously, tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost?†   (source)
  • There was a need for flesh to fill IG Farben's insatiable maw; it was back to the ramps again for the tormented doctor.†   (source)
  • The crouching shape backed away, terror in its blinking eyes, and yet at the same time insatiable desire.†   (source)
  • My mother was very sharing of this feeling of insatiability.†   (source)
  • He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.†   (source)
  • "You're insatiable," Marguerite was saying.†   (source)
  • Her curiosity is insatiable, so she reads all the time.
  • Marley went through life insatiably hungry.†   (source)
  • He drank her in insatiably from head to painted toenail.†   (source)
  • The relic's hunger for power was insatiable.†   (source)
  • They hugged with the insatiable passion of their youth, while the burro went on chewing grass.†   (source)
  • "Sir Olaf the Insatiable, Lord of Leisure," said Julie, rolling her eyes.†   (source)
  • Vlad gripped the edge of the mattress, trying to get ahold of his insatiable thirst.†   (source)
  • The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable…… There is danger from all men.†   (source)
  • They were blinded by the strength of their passion, which was like an insatiable thirst.†   (source)
  • His fingers were trembling, a twisted blend of fear, excitement, and insatiable need.†   (source)
  • Doubts of such kind gnawed at the chaplain's lean, suffering frame insatiably.†   (source)
  • One could not wish for a better couple to play cards with, and Florentino Ariza's insatiable need for love overflowed with the illusion of feeling that he was part of a family.†   (source)
  • Capricorn the unapproachable, unfathomable, insatiable, who likes to play God or the devil as the fancy takes him.†   (source)
  • "O'Dell," Quentin replied, in all sincerity, "I'm worried that your insatiable cupidity will ultimately prove to be something less than a virtue for our club.†   (source)
  • Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services, with incredible private-sector efficiency and an insatiable appetite.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza's closest friends began to visit her once she had overcome the crisis of her mourning, they played cards facing the bare patio, they tried out new recipes, they brought her up to date on the secret life of the insatiable world that continued to exist without her.†   (source)
  • In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kissing on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April.†   (source)
  • While Nick hunted vermin with a sudden, insatiable ferocity, he was considerably more delicate with the minerals and alloys required by his unique metabolism.†   (source)
  • An army, Eragon had learned, was a ravenous, insatiable beast that would soon die and separate into its constituent elements unless massive amounts of food were shoveled into its many thousands of stomachs upon a regular basis.†   (source)
  • I sleep fitfully, if at all-in part because John's appetites are insatiable (he drinks heavily into the night and then arrives to our rooms in a desirous state).†   (source)
  • Later on, when he saw her consume a side of veal without breaking a single rule of good table manners, he commented seriously that that delicate, fascinating, and insatiable proboscidian was in a certain way the ideal woman.†   (source)
  • From deep below, rising toward Saphira's underside faster than Eragon would have believed possible, he felt something that was cold and huge …. and filled with a ravenous, insatiable hunger.†   (source)
  • But he was thinking of some nights in bed with Jane, when she had become drunk enough to be insatiable; he was thinking of her breath and her slippery body, and the eerie impersonality of her cries.†   (source)
  • His thirst for knowledge is insatiable.†   (source)
  • Now Alessandro was wide awake, and he pulled on an oilcloth jacket and went downstairs with an insatiable craving to go into the night.†   (source)
  • These were novel concepts to one who had been taught to believe that wolves were not only capable of catching almost anything but, actuated by an insatiable blood lust, would slaughter everything which came within their range.†   (source)
  • Added to that was a vampire's skill and a vampire's intensity, so that in the space of one night when I had turned her away from killing, she, with that same insatiable need, created out of a few sticks of wood, with her chisel and knife, a perfect rocking chair, so shaped and proportioned for Claudia that seated in it by the fire, she appeared a woman.†   (source)
  • Since he did not know any English and could identify only the most famous cities and people, he would invent names and legends to satisfy the children 's insatiable curiosity.†   (source)
  • I used to believe you would get over it, that when the pain of all of it left you, you would grow warm again and filled with love, and filled with that wild and insatiable curiosity with which you first came to me, that inveterate conscience, and that hunger for knowledge that brought you all the way to Paris to my cell.†   (source)
  • Insatiably.†   (source)
  • They were Penned in. swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was being reduced to its epicenter as the edges were systematically being cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns.†   (source)
  • Grains and grasses had to be prepared for some, vegetables and raw fish for others, fruit and sour milk for the three Mora sisters, and succulent meat dishes, desserts, and other poisons for Jaime and Nicolas, who had insatiable appetites and still had not developed their own favorite dishes.†   (source)
  • 34 THANKSGIVING It was actually all Sergeant Knight's fault that Yossarian busted Nately in the nose on Thanksgiving Day, after everyone in the squadron had given humble thanks to Milo for providing the fantastically opulent meal on which the officers and enlisted men had gorged themselves insatiably all afternoon and for dispensing like inexhaustible largess the unopened bottles of cheap whiskey he handed out unsparingly to every man who asked.†   (source)
  • Thus the countryside, which had been the source of his wealth, became a burden, and Senator Trueba frequently had to withdraw money from his other businesses to prop up that insatiable land, which seemed to want to return to the days of oblivion, before he rescued it from misery.†   (source)
  • The moon crossed the whole horizon, but they did not see it; they were too busy exploring their deepest intimacy, insatiably entering each other's skins.†   (source)
  • All the statistics md records went into the insatiable memories of the great omputers which were some, but not all, of the unseen powers hehind Karellen.†   (source)
  • It was exquisite; I listened to her sigh in rapid breaths, I sighed too, and when she whispered, "Turn over on your back, Stingo darling," there flashed through my mind the scenes of insatiable oral love with Nathan she had so frankly described.†   (source)
  • …of formation) and the peeping prism of my mind tried out Evelyn Keyes and Robert Stack in a breathless soixante-neuf, though I soon gave up the fantasy as logic forced me to repopulate my mire en sane with characters far more likely to be clients of the McAlpin—two horny dance instructors, Mr. and Mrs. Universe, a pair of insatiable honeymooners from Chattanooga, and the like; the pornographic pageant which I let unfold in my mind became alternately a cauldron and an immolation.†   (source)
  • The trucks were still filing post, the people still insatiably gaping.†   (source)
  • Soon Carreen and Suellen would have the insatiable hunger of typhoid convalescents.†   (source)
  • 'My dear,' I said, 'I may be inverted but I am not insatiable.†   (source)
  • Miller is insatiable and gives himself no peace.†   (source)
  • He was insatiably curious about their minds and their hearts.†   (source)
  • But she never finds any servant or any friend who can do these simple things "properly"--because her "properly" conceals an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatal pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as "the days when you could get good servants" but known to us as the days when her senses were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table.†   (source)
  • The only difference was that the mental state of the food-seekers would need to be raised to a vastly higher power to make it comparable with the gnawing pain of separation, since this latter came from a hunger fierce to the point of insatiability.†   (source)
  • She had loved and forgotten him by turns, an insatiable carnivore who lived on the affections of her dogs, her children and her lovers.†   (source)
  • All Lily wished was that this enormous flood of grief, this insatiable hunger for sympathy, this demand that she should surrender herself up to him entirely, and even so he had sorrows enough to keep her supplied for ever, should leave her, should be diverted (she kept looking at the house, hoping for an interruption) before it swept her down in its flow.†   (source)
  • She had an avidity for the forbidden wordsymbols; an insatiable appetite for the sound of them on his tongue and on her own.†   (source)
  • Tillie had been asking for a new suite, so he had it in for her too--furniture-insatiable women and their nest-winding thoughts.†   (source)
  • She took insatiable delight in him, stuffing him with sour and sugared relishes, tumbling him, in a random moment of her restless activity, upon Gant's lounge, and pinioning him while she slapped his squirming face sharply with her big hand.†   (source)
  • …cook and seasons the very food you are going to eat to suit her own palate; —it's not this, not this that she is depending on to keep body and soul together: it is as though she were living on the actual blood itself like a vampire, not with insatiability, certainly not with voracity, but with that serene and idle splendor of Rowers arrogating to herself, because it fills her veins also, nourishment from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness…†   (source)
  • Even when at night, in her dark bedroom, she insisted on telling him in tedious detail the trivial matters of her day and insisted on his telling her of his day in turn, it was in the fashion of lovers: that imperious and insatiable demand that the trivial details of both days be put into words, without any need to listen to the telling.†   (source)
  • His thin undeveloped body drank sleep with insatiable thirst, but it was now necessary for him to get up at half-past three in the morning with darkness and silence making an unreal humming in his drugged ears.†   (source)
  • Secure and conscious now in the guarded and sufficient strength of home, he lay with well-lined belly before the roasting vitality of the fire, poring insatiably over great volumes in the bookcase, exulting in the musty odor of the leaves, and in the pungent smell of their hot hides.†   (source)
  • 'What is it you want to know now?' asks the doorkeeper, 'You're insatiable.'†   (source)
  • He seemed possessed by an insatiable fury which gave no time for grief.†   (source)
  • He had an insatiable desire to do things that were new to him.†   (source)
  • Living in the wilds as she did, she had an insatiable curiosity to know who people were.†   (source)
  • The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion.†   (source)
  • Never again will the insatiable thirst of the fire-fiend be so pampered.†   (source)
  • If she knew herself to be surrounded by insatiable vengeance and unquenchable fires, were they mine?†   (source)
  • A mind free of any consideration of the problems or forces of the world and actuated not by greed, but an insatiable love of variable pleasure.†   (source)
  • Mr. Higinbotham, President of the World's Fair, kindly gave me permission to touch the exhibits, and with an eagerness as insatiable as that with which Pizarro seized the treasures of Peru, I took in the glories of the Fair with my fingers.†   (source)
  • You were insatiably curious as to what a boy might be capable of, and diabolically clever at getting through his guard and surprising his inmost secrets.†   (source)
  • There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insatiable contempt—in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in society to keep up.†   (source)
  • His father, who had died young, had filled a small diplomatic post, and it had been intended that the son should follow the same career; but an insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length—after other experiments and vicissitudes which he spared his listener—into tutoring English youths in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • She had supplemented her first gift by personal assistance to one or two of Miss Farish's most appealing subjects, and the admiration and interest her presence excited among the tired workers at the club ministered in a new form to her insatiable desire to please.†   (source)
  • To these wild men, developed by loneliness, fierce-blooded, with pulses like whips, a woman was something that thrilled, charmed, soothed, that incited a strange, insatiable, inexplicable hunger for the very sight of her.†   (source)
  • He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived—a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances, of frightful realities; a shadow darker than the shadow of the night, and draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.†   (source)
  • As regards figures of speech, he was insatiable in his thirst for knowledge, for often imagining them to have a more definite meaning than was actually the case, he would want to know what, exactly, was intended by those which he most frequently heard used: 'devilish pretty,'†   (source)
  • But the unthreshed sheaves remaining untouched seemed countless still, notwithstanding the enormous numbers that had been gulped down by the insatiable swallower, fed by the man and Tess, through whose two young hands the greater part of them had passed.†   (source)
  • He did not want to bite the hand, and he endured the peril of it until his instinct surged up in him, mastering him with its insatiable yearning for life.†   (source)
  • Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.†   (source)
  • The melodic line that Radames' and Aida's voices insatiably followed, first each alone and then together, its simple, blissful arc playing between tonic and dominant, suspended too long at the keynote, then ascending to a halftone below the octave, fleetingly brushing it, and returning to the fifth—that melody seemed to the listener the most radiant, most admirable music he had ever heard.†   (source)
  • To get off a horse that had tortured her, to discover an almost insatiable appetite, to rest weary, aching body before the genial warmth of a beautiful fire—these were experiences which Carley found to have been hitherto unknown delights.†   (source)
  • Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's licence to receive it.†   (source)
  • The June days had set in warm; in fact, hot during the noon hours: and this had inculcated in her insatiable visitors a tendency to profit by the experience of those used to the Southwest.†   (source)
  • …her take him to the Verdurins'; and, when he did allow her to come to him once a month, how she had first, before he would let himself be swayed, had to repeat what a joy it would be to her, that custom of their seeing each other daily, for which she had longed at a time when to him it had seemed only a tiresome distraction, for which, since that time, she had conceived a distaste and had definitely broken herself of it, while it had become for him so insatiable, so dolorous a need.†   (source)
  • Some people said he had speculated unfortunately in railways, others that he was being bled by one of the most insatiable members of her profession; and to every report of threatened insolvency Beaufort replied by a fresh extravagance: the building of a new row of orchid-houses, the purchase of a new string of race-horses, or the addition of a new Meissonnier or Cabanel to his picture-gallery.†   (source)
  • She had never before suspected the mixture of insatiable curiosity and contemptuous freedom with which she and her kind were discussed in this underworld of toilers who lived on their vanity and self-indulgence.†   (source)
  • There's no more than some slight impatience — the doorkeeper knows everything's come to its end — shown in the words, 'You're insatiable'.†   (source)
  • There are many commentators who go even further in explaining it in this way and think the words, 'you're insatiable' are an expression of friendly admiration, albeit with some condescension.†   (source)
  • As Claude Frollo had passed through nearly the entire circle of human learning—positive, exterior, and permissible—since his youth, he was obliged, unless he came to a halt, ~ubi defuit orbis~, to proceed further and seek other aliments for the insatiable activity of his intelligence.†   (source)
  • Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable.†   (source)
  • So now; but, in the days of which we are writing, for captivity there was drudgery on walls, and in the streets and mines, and the galleys both of war and commerce were insatiable.†   (source)
  • I work hard, and read Law insatiably.†   (source)
  • You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom nothing in this world was handsome enough.†   (source)
  • 'The insatiable greed of the lower classes must be repressed'—'The people must be taught a lesson'—these were the sacramental phrases current amongst the reactionists, and ominous enough they were."†   (source)
  • A place was reserved for three or four of the principal chiefs, and a few of the oldest of the women, as withered, as age, exposure, hardships, and lives of savage passions could make them, thrust themselves into the foremost circle, with a temerity, to which they were impelled by their insatiable desire for cruelty, and which nothing, but their years and their long tried fidelity to the nation, would have excused.†   (source)
  • A sort of insatiable compassion, if one may so express it, was reflected in every feature of her face.†   (source)
  • I want to see what no man has seen yet, even if I must pay for this insatiable curiosity with my life!†   (source)
  • And that question alone, gradually repeated, gave rise at last to an intense, insatiable hatred of him.†   (source)
  • But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.†   (source)
  • When the parties were over, and the carriages had rolled away, the insatiable Miss Crawley would say, "Come to my dressing room, Becky, and let us abuse the company"—which, between them, this pair of friends did perfectly.†   (source)
  • Or, do we not insatiably ask.†   (source)
  • As the sovereignty of the Union is limited and incomplete, its exercise is not incompatible with liberty; for it does not excite those insatiable desires of fame and power which have proved so fatal to great republics.†   (source)
  • I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the insatiable longings of youth after distinction.†   (source)
  • The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal[715] memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.†   (source)
  • Hence the desire of equality always becomes more insatiable in proportion as equality is more complete.†   (source)
  • Bellegarde, penniless patrician as he was, was an insatiable collector, and his walls were covered with rusty arms and ancient panels and platters, his doorways draped in faded tapestries, his floors muffled in the skins of beasts.†   (source)
  • …he had occupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait for him, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost — the in— definable impossibility of separating him from the place, and feeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in — the lazy hush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish with which our people talked about it, and other people came in and out all day, and gorged themselves with the subject — this is easily intelligible to anyone.†   (source)
  • But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.†   (source)
  • With no other guide than the ripple of the stream where it met the head of the island, a party of their insatiable foes had ventured into the current, and swam down upon this point, knowing the ready access it would give, if successful, to their intended victims.†   (source)
  • The Americans in their intercourse with strangers appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.†   (source)
  • In either case the inquietude of the heart is the same, the taste for enjoyment as insatiable, the ambition of success as great—the means of gratifying it are alone different.†   (source)
  • His curiosity is at once insatiable and cheaply satisfied; for he cares more to know a great deal quickly than to know anything well: he has no time and but little taste to search things to the bottom.†   (source)
  • The restless and insatiable vanity of a democratic people originates so entirely in the equality and precariousness of social conditions, that the members of the haughtiest nobility display the very same passion in those lesser portions of their existence in which there is anything fluctuating or contested.†   (source)
  • A pang of fear ran through the hearts of Trojans and Akhaians, deafened by insatiable Ares' roar.†   (source)
  • The father of gods and men began: "You've come to Olympos, Thetis, though your mind is troubled and insatiable pain preys on your heart.†   (source)
  • How strange that you should favor the offenders— favor the Trojans in their insolence ever insatiable for war!†   (source)
  • His son Isandros in a skirmish with Solymoi met his death at insatiable Ares' hands, and angry Artemis killed Laodameia.†   (source)
  • This great army Ares urged on; the other, grey-eyed Athena, Terror and Rout, and Hate, insatiable sister-in-arms of man-destroying Ares— frail at first, but growing, till she rears her head through heaven as she walks the earth.†   (source)
  • He stood again amid his peers, to their relief; they saw him whole, without a scratch, and hot for war— but no one there could pause to question him; Apollo brought new toil upon them now, with Ares, bane of men, and Strife insatiable.†   (source)
  • …the beggar warmly now, those proud young blades,
    one man egging the other on: "Stranger, friend, may Zeus
    and the other deathless gods fill up your sack with blessings!"
    "All your heart desires!"
    "You've knocked him out of action,
    that insatiable tramp—"
    "That parasite on the land!"
    "Ship him off to Echetus, fast—the mainland king
    who wrecks all men alive!"
    Welcome words
    and a lucky omen too—Odysseus' heart leapt up.
    Antinous laid before him a generous goat…†   (source)
  • He looked sideways in a friendly fashion at the sideface of Stephen, image of his mother, which was not quite the same as the usual handsome blackguard type they unquestionably had an insatiable hankering after as he was perhaps not that way built.†   (source)
  • Down to Jefferson's day it was almost wholly polemical, and hence lacking in the finer values; he himself, an insatiable propagandist and controversialist, was one of its chief ornaments.†   (source)
  • I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.†   (source)
  • Whether the insatiable curiosity of this good woman had carried her on to that business, or whether she did it to confirm herself in the good graces of Mrs Blifil, who, notwithstanding her outward behaviour to the foundling, frequently abused the infant in private, and her brother too, for his fondness to it, I will not determine; but she had now, as she conceived, fully detected the father of the foundling.†   (source)
  • It required, indeed, an insatiable avidity for censure to invent exceptions to the parts which have been excepted to.†   (source)
  • We may further adde, the insatiable appetite, or Bulimia, of enlarging Dominion; with the incurable Wounds thereby many times received from the enemy; And the Wens, of ununited conquests, which are many times a burthen, and with lesse danger lost, than kept; As also the Lethargy of Ease, and Consumption of Riot and Vain Expence.†   (source)
  • As if forests and parks had swallowed up too little of the land, those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes; for when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country, resolves to enclose many thousand acres of ground, the owners, as well as tenants, are turned out of their possessions by trick or by main force, or, being wearied out by ill usage, they are forced to sell them; by which means those miserable people, both men and women, married and…†   (source)
  • The desires, however, of those people do not go beyond money, but of that their covetousness is insatiable, and on this occasion it was carried to such a pitch that they would have taken even the clothes we wore as captives if they had been worth anything to them.†   (source)
  • …and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws; yet these wicked men, after they have, by a most insatiable covetousness, divided that among themselves with which all the rest might have been well supplied, are far from that happiness that is enjoyed among the Utopians; for the use as well as the desire of money being extinguished, much anxiety…†   (source)
  • ] The frequent labours I underwent every day, made, in a few weeks, a very considerable change in my health: the more my master got by me, the more insatiable he grew.†   (source)
  • It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.†   (source)
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