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It was as if they stood at the window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels of silver and gold, and ruby, sapphire and amethyst, all kindled with an unconsuming fire.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Supreme is still the aim To flee the cold and gray Of our December day, And rest where thy clear spirit burns with unconsuming flame.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian

Sometimes it glows in purple, pink, and crimson, intense, but unconsuming, like Horeb's burning bush.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

His passage kindles to unconsuming fires and quenches into living ashes. 

From The Rhythm of Life by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

Cathedrals, buttressed with unnumbered tiers Of ruddy rock, lift to the sapphire sky A single spire of marble pure as snow; And huge a�rial palaces arise Like mountains built of unconsuming flame.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry