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  • At all events Kit required no second thought to perceive that the monarchs of the American forest were unappeasably angry and were fast nearing him with mighty stride.

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

  • "That's all you know about it," said Winn, unappeasably.

    The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923

  • The killer whale (_Orca gladiator_), unappeasably voracious, devouring or attempting to devour every smaller animal, is less common in the pack but numerous on the coasts.

    Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

  • They were shy, all but unappeasably shy, but they weren't really sinister; at least they weren't as he had hitherto felt them -- before they had taken the Form he so yearned to make them take, the Form he at moments saw himself in the light of fairly hunting on tiptoe, the points of his evening shoes, from room to room and from storey to storey.

    The Jolly Corner Henry James 1879

  • Eve's ears itched unappeasably for the devil's promised secret; and we have all inherited our first mother's miserable curiosity.

    Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

  • At all events Kit required no second thought to perceive that the monarchs of the American forest were unappeasably angry and were fast nearing him with mighty stride.

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Peters, DeWitt C 1858

  • From the Chelidonian isles on the Pamphylian coast, to those [176] twin rocks at the entrance of the Euxine, between which the sea, chafed by their rugged base, roars unappeasably through its mists of foam, no Persian galley was descried.

    Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The West Lothian question, whereby Scottish Labour MPs can intervene in English domestic affairs but not vice-versa, burns unappeasably on.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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