quenchless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- quenchlessly adverb
- quenchlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of quenchless
Example Sentences
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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017
The "quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" that Biographer Freeman finds in George Washington is an apt description of Freeman himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As one seems to hear in this little shell, the multitudinous roar of the ocean, so I hear the whole quenchless symphony of the universal soul, of whose echoes this box was its cross-roads.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
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