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She to Paris made   Proffer of royal power, ample rule   Unquestion'd, overflowing revenue 110   Wherewith to embellish state, 'from many a vale   And river-sunder'd champaign cloth'd with corn,   Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore.

From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Wordsworth, William

"Fagan, whom I regarded as an undrainable well of the precious metals, threatens to run dry; he sends me back bills unaccepted, and actually menaces me with a reckoning."

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

But, as thou hast protested, we will confer of these doubts together, and will seek out the resolution, even unto the bottom of that undrainable well where Heraclitus says the truth lies hidden.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Perhaps the most hopeless area of undrainable bog in Ireland lies in Western and North-Western Mayo.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.

She to Paris made   Proffer of royal power, ample rule   Unquestion'd, overflowing revenue   Wherewith to embellish state, 'from many a vale   And river-sunder'd champaign clothed with corn,   Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton