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
In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life.
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
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
They said the earth began in heat, that it was a ball of fire a few miles below its surface, and the suns were great flaming furnaces burning up with quenchless fire.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
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