The novelty has worn away, and this profusion of roses satiates me.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
Descriptive poetry should be relieved by a skilful intermixture of passages addressed to the heart as well as to the imagination: uniform description satiates; and has been considered as one of the inferior branches of poetry.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
Such was the "Curse of Moy," uttered, it must be remembered, too, by a fair young girl, against the Chief of Moy for a blood-thirsty crime-the act of a traitor-in that, not content with slaying her father, and murdering her lover, he satiates his brutal passion by letting her eyes rest on their corpses.
"Strange Pages from Family Papers"
T. F. Thiselton Dyer