insatiable
Definition: Not capable of being satisfied; craving more than what is normal
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The Ball and the Cross - By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
...In her home she had a habit of being invisible, sometimes through insatiable domesticity, sometimes through an equally insatiable solitude ....
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...And yet the greatest achievements and discoveries of mankind have been accomplished by men of restless longings and insatiable desires ....
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...You see, " continued the insatiable tormenter, heedless of Cormelard 's change of color, and the drops of cold perspiration that coursed each other down his horror-stricken cheeks, " my memory is still fresh !...
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Reason, and not Feeling, is my guide : my ambition is unlimited; my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Frederick William Roe
...Travel was indispensable to Dickens because it fed an almost insatiable curiosity and kept his imagination at fever-heat ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...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...
Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighborhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the insatiable appetite of fifteen ....
Ethan Frome - By Edith Wharton
...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 ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...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 ....
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...Subsequently, at St. Helena, Napoleon himself ascribed the conflict to the intrigues of England, while the English set it down to his insatiable ambition; the Duke of Oldenburg found the cause in ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...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 -LRB- apparently unsuccessful -RRB-, and at length--after other experiments and vicissitudes which he spared his listener--into tutoring English youths in Switzerland ....
Daisy Miller - By Henry James, Harry William McVickar
...Her enjoyment was keen and her curiosity insatiable, and, grateful in general for all her opportunities, she especially...
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...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 ....
The portrait of a lady - By Henry James
...He had great talent for business, for administration, and for making people execute his purpose and carry out his views--for managing men, as the phrase was; and to give its complete value to this faculty, he had an insatiable, an almost fierce ambition ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...The sword has now a heart--and thine the glory I 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 ....
Don Quixote - By Ronald D. K. Storer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...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 ....