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And so it goes, until Quiquendonians, unaccountably infected with this un quenchable need for activity, decide to declare war on a neighboring village for an offense committed 500 years earlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence."

From Time Magazine Archive

Assuredly, fire is borne aloft, is without a soul, is easily quenchable and corruptible; but the sun is orbicular and animate, eternal and imperishable.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

"It would be very unreasonable indeed, my lord," replied the Marquis, "had we either thought that your lordship's drought was quenchable, or observed anything stick in your throat that required washing down."

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

His pallid, sharp-featured face, and a strange brilliancy in his eyes, told me that either his physical or his mental being hid an underground fire, perhaps no longer quenchable.

From The Visionary Pictures From Nordland by Muir, Jessie