"Unsatisfied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nick had the accent perfectly. He would have him stamp, too, and turn about, and gesture in accordance with the speech, until the boy's arms ached, going with him through the motions one by one, over and over again, unsatisfied, but patient to the last, until Nick wondered. "Nick, my lad," he would often say, with a tired but determined smile, "one little thing done wrong may spoil the finest play, as one bad apple rots the barrelful. We'll have it right, or not at all, if it takes ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... p. 261. The MS. of Vossius, unsatisfied with the single beast, affords the stronger reading of which the experience of despotism ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... these are new things for which the country is not prepared? No; but that they are old things, now familiar, and must of course be undertaken if we are to square our laws with the thought and desire of the country. Until these things are done, conscientious business men the country over will be unsatisfied. They are in these things our mentors and colleagues. We are now about to write the additional articles of our constitution of peace, the peace that is honor and ...
— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson
... strange infatuation of unconquerable prejudice! his very life will he sacrifice in preference to his name, and while the conflict of his mind threatens to level him with the dust, he disdains to unite himself where one wish is unsatisfied!" ...
— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... so I came away unsatisfied. But I believe the shadow is still there, for I saw it only the last time I ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell
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