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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

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

From Songs out of Doors by Van Dyke, Henry

The love that has lain latent within her bosom, or burned with friendship's unconsuming flame, awakes like smoldering embers fanned by desert winds and fed with camphor wood, enveloping all her world.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

After this body's bitter punishment, There is an ever-during endless woe, A quenchless fire, an unconsuming pain, Which desperate souls and bodies must endure.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

The Angel of the Lord, 47.—An unconsuming fire, 48.—Inquiry: reverence.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.