Edacious

They do not realize we are going to have a recession no matter what they do, and many times these panicked actions by Washington and its edacious appetite for more power only make things worse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Is the writerly part of me so insensitive, so edacious, that I while I am struck with sorrow a part of me is looking for ways to express it in writing? posted by Dean at ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2005)

I had a prof. several semesters ago who constantly spoke of the "edacious deglutition of pig". ❋ Unknown (2004)

PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The instant you enter the Thunderbird, you are overcome with an edacious distaste and a puncturing depression. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)

After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in _saccadé_ paragraphs on the general question. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea. ❋ Henry White Warren (1871)

I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

For Time, all-edacious and all-feracious, does run on: and the Seven ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

For Time, all-edacious and all - feracious, does run on: and the Seven Sleepers, awakening hungry after a hundred years, find that it is not their old nurses who can now give them suck! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

(A third theory, involving edacious Cockneys, has not been explored.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, he claims, in his rather overwrought and edacious fashion, that he has had many private classes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a sense wrung from me; my one society the _Nightmares_ (Prussian and other) all that while: -- but often and often the image of you, and the thoughts of old days between us, has risen sad upon me; and I have waited to get loose from the Nightmares to appeal to you again, -- to edacious Time and you. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)