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  • But the truth will begin to win out; even as it did in early days of October 1938, literally days after Chamberlain's betrayal of the Czechs, when people started to realize that most of Britain's elites had deceived them and that Hitler was in fact unappeaseable.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Clueless, spineless dhimmis giving away our tax money in an attempt to appease the unappeaseable.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Full well did he know that it was no holiday task to escape the vigilance of Virginia slave-hunters, as the wrath of an enraged master, for committing the unpardonable sin of attempting to escape to a land of liberty, would be unappeaseable.

    Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad 1873

  • The morning presented to our view a precipitous and rugged iron-bound coast, with high and pointed rocks, frowning defiance over the unappeaseable and furious waves which broke incessantly at their feet, and recoiled to repeat the blow.

    Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Belfield upon hearing the actual situation of her son, was so clamorous and unappeaseable, that, little wondering at Belfield's want of courage to encounter it, and having no opportunity in such a storm to console the soft Henrietta, whose tears flowed abundantly that her brother should thus be fallen, she only promised before she left town to see her again, and beseeching Mrs Belfield to moderate her concern, was glad to leave the house, where her presence had no power to quiet their distress.

    Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • Turn not upon her, then, the look of displeasure, if joy is stirred in her heart, which has yearned with a mother's longings for her first and only born, when she finds contradicted the cruel story that his blood had been poured out, to allay the unappeaseable thirst of the devouring flame, or the vengeance of a relentless foe. "

    Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II. 1839

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