Example Sentences

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The damp death Quenched its caress upon his icy lips.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Quenched is the last torch, quenched all thought, all memory.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Quenched the eye's soft light, Hushed the cowslip breath!

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

That fury stayed— Quenched in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea, Nor good dry land—nigh foundered, on he fares, Treading the crude consistence, half on foot, Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Quenched by my power when I assail The glory of his might shall fail, As stars before the sun grow dim And yield their feeble light to him.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)