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This time the questions I had to ask were deeply personal, but she talked as perceptively as always, with a poetic turn of phrase, unabashed candor and an unquelled sense of joy.

From Time Magazine Archive

How towers he, too, amid the billowed snows, An unquelled exile from the summer's throne, Whose plain, uncinctured front more kingly shows, Now that the obscuring courtier leaves are flown.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

It could not be that she had guessed the truth, or she would not stand like that, with tearless eyes and unquelled courage before her.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

Four stars burn up and are unquelled By the low, shrunken moon; Her spirit draws her down and down— She shall be buried soon.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell

They did get us into a car at last, but the riot on the station platform continued unquelled.

From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary