quenchless
Americanadjective
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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017
If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small one.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual op�ra bouffe case of mistaken identity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Fore-world's holy breezes Around his temples play, And caverned night releases To him a quenchless ray.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
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