quenchless
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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017
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
By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive, benevolent prudence.
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
Spirit of my spirit! who movest Through seraph veins in burning deity To light the quenchless pulses!—
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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