| 单词 | quenchless |
| 例句 | Thanks to his enemies’ heedlessness, the world suffered one last Napoleonic assault — the battle of Waterloo, where 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, a high price to pay for underestimating one man’s quenchless ambition. Favorite nonfiction from 2018, from Princess Margaret to a Silicon Valley scammer 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.” On a road trip up the coast, I linger too long over lighthouses and eat way too much pie. Surprised? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z They came shortly after he arrived at Chapel Hill, a hot prospect who joined one of the nation’s celebrated teams and soon discovered a quenchless taste for alcohol, partying, life in excess. Monmouth Coach Leads by Example, Both Bad and Good 2013-12-27T02:24:07Z A thousand years they built, still on, with faith, Immeasurable, quenchless, so my legend saith, Until the winter street of light—a bridge Above heaven’s highest vault swung clear, remotest ridge from ridge. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The quenchless fire of genius burned within his breast; the long dreamt-of ideal was no longer a faint, far-off vision, but had become to him a reality of dazzling beauty. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Both consecrated to it intense nationality of feeling, quenchless perseverance, and indomitable courage. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z I had always such a horror of quenchless thirst, and now I suffer it!' The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z We had Pollok's Course of Time, with its worm that never dies, its quenchless flames, its endless pangs, its leering devils, and its gloating God. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Sweet bird of Scotia's tuneful clime, So beautiful and dear, Whose music gushed as genius taught, With Heaven's own quenchless spirit fraught, I list—thy strain to hear. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Bears down the opposing stream; quenchless his thirst, He takes the river at redoubled draughts: And with wide nostrils, snorting, skims the wave. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z He had to endure all the horrors of famine as well as the agonies of quenchless thirst. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The summer faded, and the skies were hid, And my love came not, but a quenchless thirst Wasted my life. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z But she possessed the art of sentimental facile narration, coupled with a great desire to preach, and a genuine and quenchless passion for the obvious. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z —Lo, where we have spilled the wine, This quenchless earth is agape, O Love, for your body and mine. Poems of London and Other Verses 2011-10-15T02:00:29.553Z Shall now eternity's bright, quenchless sun Set in the gathering darkness of the world? Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z By base Butler’s proclamation, By our sister’s defamation,— By the sword of justice sheathless, Be the fires of vengeance quenchless. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Spirit of my spirit! who movest Through seraph veins in burning deity To light the quenchless pulses!— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Your cup, my quenchless one, Is at length heaped up, Like Benjamin's, And it runs over! Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z They said the earth began in heat, that it was a ball of fire a few miles below its surface, and the suns were great flaming furnaces burning up with quenchless fire. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z It is impossible for any impartial lover of his country, for any just thinking man, to witness her senseless and quenchless malignancy against the Union without the most immeasurable disgust and scorn. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z They knew how frail was the small tenement housing Miss Judy's quenchless spirit. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Oh, what quenchless feud is this, that Time hath with the sons of Men! Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z "How piercing cold it is here!" exclaimed Calabash; "yet my eyes burn in my head, and I have a burning, quenchless thirst!" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 His quenchless spirit seeks to penetrate the mysteries of the universe, and comprehend time and eternity, and in agony of soul he asks the age-old question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Last verse Still may the soaring eagle’s quenchless eye, Watch o’er our favour’d country, brave and free, Where the bright stars and stripes in honour wave, The sacred emblems of our liberty. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact With quenchless hope The happy widow bravely bent her shoulders To the yoke again. On Strike Till 3 Now that star was burning in his heart with passionate fires and fevers and with quenchless ardors. Plashers Mead A Novel As years sped by, and each showed her more plainly the vacancy of her existence, this feeling deepened into a quenchless thirst for revenge. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. Deep in our souls is the quenchless desire for a fuller expression of our powers. Some Essentials of Religion Still may the soaring eagle’s quenchless eye, Watch o’er our favour’d country, brave and free, Where the bright stars and stripes in honour wave, The sacred emblems of our liberty. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Write of his faith; how humble, yet how bright, Diffusing round a clear and heavenly light; Write of his zeal; how quenchlessly it burned, How many a wanderer to the skies it turned! Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 My service shall be still as leal, My love as quenchless burn It shames me of my selfish thought That dream'd of a return! Fugitive Poetry No spot may dim Its youthful beauty, e'en in light of day Shedding the glory of its quenchless ray. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa Upon a damask napkin laid, What exhalations superfine Our gustatory nerves pervade, Provoking quenchless thirsts for wine! Second Book of Verse The Fore-world's holy breezes Around his temples play, And caverned night releases To him a quenchless ray. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. At right angles with the beaten path, they fled across the prairie, leaving little fires in their wake that spread and spread, rising higher and higher, and soon roaring into quenchless conflagrations. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure He was accompanied, of course, by the fearless and quenchless friars. Through Our Unknown Southwest He moves to go: from his moon-crest a ray Sheds quenchless light on his triumphant way. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa I give you joy, my lord!—Your quenchless fury At length prevails,—and now your malice triumphs. The Earl of Essex Once the cup has been raised to my lips; one draught I took of that for which my soul longs with a burning and quenchless thirst. Ellen Middleton—A Tale In my unutterable loneliness, I lost all heart for my studies, and breaking away from école and hospitals, wandered in Italy, seeking to quench a quenchless grief. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 As one seems to hear in this little shell, the multitudinous roar of the ocean, so I hear the whole quenchless symphony of the universal soul, of whose echoes this box was its cross-roads. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Thy richest gift Is Innocence, that like a quenchless spring Of everlasting light, encircles life With beauty and unfading radiance, Keeping all sense and feeling fresh and sweet As the untainted breathing of the morn. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems And in my soul the quenchless fire burns. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists Not of this life––nay, naught but the thread-worn, undemonstrable promise of a life to come, if, indeed, they might happily avoid the pangs of purgatory and the horrors of the quenchless flames of hell! Carmen Ariza And such, in sooth, was the sober truth; For the single fault of this saintly soul Was a desert thirst for the cup accurst,— A quenchless love for the Flowing Bowl. A line-o'-verse or two We have the lighted tapers, signifying the quenchless fires of love; and the circlet which symbolizes eternity. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex O what were matter, fashioned ne'er so fair, But for the beaming of that quenchless light That plays around it, like the radiance Of heaven's own glory stamped upon its work? Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Let the quenchless love Of worshippers, a number beyond number, A fountain of rejoicing prove. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The boy, filled with that quenchless ambition to know, which characterizes the finest minds, entered eagerly upon his studies and faithfully observed his promises. Carmen Ariza But steadfast, tireless, quenchless as the sun Doth grow that gladness which hath root in pain. Hetty's Strange History Within thy brow a glory plays; Shrine, blossom, dewdrop, all are bright With quenchless rays. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 There shall an altar and a camp Impregnably arise; There shall be lit a quenchless lamp, To shine unwavering through the open skies. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge But we have arts Which these barbarians know not, quenchless fires Which in one moment can enwrap their stronghold In one red ring of ruin. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts There he toiled for many years, until Fortune at 31 length smiled upon his quenchless efforts. Carmen Ariza She had but one passionate and quenchless desire: the desire to share it with others. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling— Careening in liberty higher and higher— Like genius unfolding a quenchless desire. Poems Innocent III., who hid under a sanctimonious guise the boundless ambition and quenchless malignity of Lucifer, was the first to blow the trumpet of extermination against the poor Vaudois. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge And are they not both struggling with the realities of life, and moved by quenchless desires, and looking up into the same infinite mystery? Humanity in the City Secure in her quenchless faith, she gladly accepted the proffered shelter of the Hawley-Crowles mansion, and the protection of its worldly, scheming inmates. Carmen Ariza No, this is not a wound upon my bosom, 'tis a red, red rose, the quenchless flame of war, my sacred oath! New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Three forces moved me—party success, a vicious woman, and the quenchless desire for personal vengeance. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The island had been subject to the fury rain of a quenchless volcano. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls No promised heaven, these wild desires Could all, or half fulfil; No threatened hell, with quenchless fires, Subdue this quenchless will! Emily Brontë Then fell the fiend: the quenchless flame Burnt furious in his wounded frame. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse None that dived into that water ever came up alive; excessive anguish and quenchless thirst so distracting their thoughts that they were invariably drowned. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Let the man be holy, and vigorous health and p. 20lofty intellect and swaying eloquence and quenchless zeal will all be offered to God. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Let me set souls aflame with quenchless zeal For high endeavors, causes true and high. Mary Ware's Promised Land Does not a quenchless longing stir you As you grow on the selfsame flower bough? Life Immovable First Part Red flashed his eyes with angry glow: He stood and grasped his mighty bow, Terrific as the fire of doom Whose quenchless flames the world consume. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse He had to endure all the horrors of famine, as well as the agonies of quenchless thirst. Rookwood All the loneliness, passion and quenchless curiosity of youth are in these pages—and the magic power of youth to wrap about the commonplace the cloak of romance. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women "Sail on, thou lone imperial bird Of quenchless eye and tireless wing!" The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. But a little while, And time shall heal the desecrated lands, The quenchless fire of life shall take its own, The waters of renewal spring again. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army At these, O son of Raghu, aim Thine arrow with the quenchless flame.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse These quench'd a moment her ambition's thirst— So Arab deserts drink in summer's rain: In vain!—As fall the dews on quenchless sands, Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands! Don Juan His eyes were such intrepid and quenchless lights of impudence, that they could look even Irish sang froid out of countenance. Rattlin the Reefer Her doubt is itself an affirmation, her defiance would be an entreaty but for the 'quenchless will' of her pride. Figures of Several Centuries I can imagine Amy Lowell doing something of this sort after the custom of those masters she so admires, with her seemingly quenchless enthusiasms for all that is modern in poetry. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Religion is the quenchless thirst of the human spirit for the Divine. London Lectures of 1907 I had no schooling," he said, when speaking of his early struggles, "but I had a quenchless thirst for information. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success She entered upon her task with an eagerness born of a quenchless love. Sermons on Biblical Characters Yet age doth sometimes skill to guard The beauty of its prime, And hold a quenchless lamp above The water-floods of time. Man of Uz, and Other Poems She was a quenchless mother in her gift for solace and she was lover to the immeasurable love. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Greece will resume th’ Aonian lyre, And Rome again to heaven aspire, And vestal Freedom’s quenchless fire From the pyramids shall flame!’ Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Justice's stooping sun, Seeing in agony's each, a Washington, Breaths life in them, and, over Brooklyn's spire And New York's Babel Tower, they, one by one, Hold Liberty's broading Torch of quenchless fire. Freedom, Truth and Beauty Beyond the waning torches they must have looked and seen the quenchless glory of the same old Indian stars. Son of Power Repose still constitutes greatness in some instances; but the inner man is made all fire, and seething metal, ever-burning and quenchless. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy God! what shall we do to slake their quenchless thirst? Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two There is in war the doom of defeat, the quenchless sense of Duty, the stirring sense of Honor, the measureless solemn sacrifice of devotedness, and the incense of success. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The exultant French regarded the siege as practically over; but Wolfe was a man of heroic and quenchless tenacity, and never so dangerous as when he seemed to be in the last straits. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Its life consists of a quenchless series of self preservations. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Our racial curiosities about the state of the dead are quenchless. Modern Religious Cults and Movements But we that yearn for a friend's face—we Who lack the light that on earth was he— Mourn, though the light be a quenchless flame That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI O Neptune, Juno's unrelenting ire, The quenchless malice, that consumes her breast, Constrains me thus to urge a suppliant's quest; And stoop, with humbled majesty, to sue. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor O load of grief, of faith, of wrath, Of patient, quenchless will, Till God shall ease us of your weight We'll bear you higher still! Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus Her tender and fiery soul burns upward through error and crime with a leaping, quenchless flame. An Introduction to the Study of Browning When Shiva's anger burned the tree Of love in quenchless fire, Did heavenly fate preserve a shoot To deck my heart's desire? Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works His desire to aggrandize his family burned with a quenchless flame. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power On the floor below lived a maiden lady whose quenchless hopes still centred about his amiable person. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Let it blaze quenchlessly before the mind, warming the heart to mercy. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character It is a quenchless reservoir of high-class energy. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Is its flame quenchless? and are those gates that keep the way indeed passable no more? or is it not rather that we no more desire to enter? Selections From the Works of John Ruskin What sight hath fired thee with this quenchless glow? The Seven Plays in English Verse All the forenoon she lay in his arms, crying out with little inarticulate gurgles of joy under his caresses, lavishing a whole lifetime's concentrated emotion upon him in a ferocity of passion that seemed quenchless. One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' In short, it leaves every man to himself, facing his God, his conscience laid bare to the quenchless rays of truth. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Himself the God let blame If all about him bursts to quenchless flame! The Unknown Eros I am little better than a devil at this moment; and as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Mine eyes are hot with bitter tears, My soul disconsolately yearns— But, ah, no wooing knight appears— In vain my quenchless passion burns. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 The peerless glory of our Lord Jesus Christ—his measureless, boundless and quenchless love—this is the great center of attraction around which the affections of the Christian do continually gather. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler No form of self-seeking is morally more weakening than this quenchless craving, which makes the soul hang its satisfaction on what is utterly beyond its sway, on praise and admiration. Essays Æsthetical Forthwith this tongue of mine was stirred To quenchless fluency, Which forced me to begin my tale, As now I tell it thee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 On several distinct occasions, the magic name, Rothschild, was appealed to on his behalf by well-wishers, and through its avenue of almoners it responded with its eternal quenchless unquestioning generosity to students. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People He struggled hard to break the serpent-folds that were tightening around him; but the fire that had been kindled seemed to be quenchless. California Sketches, Second Series The personnel were, first, Numeris Humber, with his tender heart and quenchless love for missionary work. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler The thought of Bertha tugged at him now like a pain, insistent, quenchless. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The pride of quenchless strength is his— Strength which, though chained, avails; The very rebel looks and thrills— The anchored Emblem hails. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Sun-stroke and fever, vibration between opiates at night and tonics at noon,—but the flame was too strong to fan away lightly, it must burn itself out, the spirit was too quenchless,—pain, wretchedness, exhaustion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 Let us then call the bright and quenchless planispheres, which such lives describe and fill around them, biographs, assuming that the script is in rays of light. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's I feel it now; This long eternity is mine: My soul shall this duration know,— A quenchless spark of life divine! Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York They lure us by a quenchless light, And point where joy is holier far; They shed God's spirit, warm and bright, And keep undimm'd Faith's guiding star. The Illustrated London Reading Book None cared to remember at that moment that Henry the Great was in his grave, and that his royal widow had been sacrificed to the insatiable ambition and the quenchless hate of a low-born minion. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 Of the bright enthusiasm and the quenchless industry of the next few weeks what need to speak? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 So even in life's darkest night A thousand quenchless suns are bright,— Blest souvenirs of past delight; Allons! Poems He showed him his engines of arsmetrick And his wells of quenchless flame,And his flying rocks, that guarded his walls From all that against him came. Andromeda and Other Poems The one characteristic above all others that marked the poet's life was his unfaltering trust,—the soul's unclouded sky, a quenchless radiance of blessed sunlight amid the deep darkness that encompassed him. The Poems of Henry Timrod His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. Edison, His Life and Inventions May Christ condemn me still to burn In quenchless fire, if I did turn, And leave King Olaf in his need,— My soul is free from such base deed. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Yet when the music ended with an unexpected crash of discord these dancers applauded insatiably till the jaded orchestra struck up once more, when they renewed their curious gyrations with quenchless abandon. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Into this age, when the Old and New met face to face, came the questioning and quenchless spirit of Kepler. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 And turning again to the adventurer, meeting his cold stare with the De Morbihan grin of quenchless effrontery—"As you will, my friend!" he granted. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Science summons us "To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply; Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky." The Pleasures of Life Westerners who were viewing the vast spectacle had a unique opportunity to feel the pulse of the land, the spiritual ardor to which India owes her quenchless vitality before the blows of time. Autobiography of a Yogi The strife for wealth and desperation of want kept in quenchless blaze a hell of greed and envy, fear, lust, hate, revenge, and every foul passion of the pit. Equality Their fame was great in Norway's realm, and love for Aildé came To melt the heart of Norway's queen, a sudden quenchless flame. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses In the dim beginnings of his faith, when nothing but its conception of the indivisible godhead had been accomplished, he had brought to its altars only the quenchless fire of his inspiration. Mahomet Founder of Islam His enjoyment was as far inferior to Mercy's in genuineness and enduringness as is the shallow lake to the quenchless spring. Mercy Philbrick's Choice Half the world were not too much to put between them if she were now to sleep of nights in comfortable consciousness of security from his quenchless hatred. Red Masquerade 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. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 But there were deeper fervors, glowing in the still depths of convent cells, and kindling the breasts of their inmates with quenchless longings. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Why dost thou follow after me and track My steps with quenchless rage? Maid of Orleans The end had come when he appeared to make of benignant victory a quenchless revenge. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth O free wing soaring in fetterless flight Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light!— Poems of the Heart and Home Can you preach this, yet set me on, Sir Prior, To run into this endless, quenchless fire? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 She had the Parker eyes of quenchless blue. Flowing Gold The sparrows that have built their nest Ten feet from where one takes one's rest, And 'gin their merry, blithesome song Each morning—quenchless, clear and strong Promptly at four o'clock. Tobogganing on Parnassus Precaution however was ineffectual, for their thirst was quenchless. The Physiology of Taste O Monarch, sitting serenely bright, In thy quenchless glory on heaven's height, I am upward drawn to thee!— Poems of the Heart and Home Absorb me in the quenchless glory of thine Immortality! Ardath The earth burns with the quenchless thirst of ages, and in the steel-blue sky scarcely a cloud obstructs the unrelenting triumph of the sun. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan She had an endless, quenchless restlessness, it is true; her eyes wandered aimlessly; she never was happy for two minutes together, unless she was surrounded by friends, and was seeing something. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose But we that yearn for a friend's face,—we Who lack the light that on earth was he,— Mourn, though the light be a quenchless flame That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Her great dark eyes burned with quenchless resentment; her sunken and pallid face told of the sufferings of a tortured pride. Veranilda Blucher, in his quenchless hatred of the French, was eager to reject all proposals for a suspension of hostilities, and to assault and storm the city. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo To lose the power to keep in degradation the wife and children of the man he hated with a quenchless hatred would be to lose much of the sweetness of life. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Such love, such high intelligence and insight, such quenchless enthusiasm, are in themselves the proof that wise and beneficial child-service may be given by extra-maternal hearts, heads and hands. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) That perchance I may behold those for whom my heart burns with a quenchless, eating fire. The Mahatma and the Hare The fair face of Spring, with her tears dropping upon her quenchless smiles, peeped in suppressed triumph from behind the growing corn and the budding sallows on the river-bank. Robert Falconer Sublimity comes from the heart, intellect has little to do with it; religion is a quenchless source of this sublimity which has no dross; for Catholicism entering and changing all hearts, is itself all heart. The Village Rector His warlike valor had changed by degrees to ferocity; his discretion to deceit; the refined and delicate love of a Valois was now a mere quenchless thirst for pleasure. Catherine De Medici For every tear he falls a Trojan bleeds: His eye drops fire, no water thence proceeds; Those round clear pearls of his, that move thy pity, Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city. The Rape of Lucrece For every tear he falls a Trojan bleeds; His eye drops fire, no water thence proceeds; Those round clear pearls of his that move thy pity, Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city. The Rape of Lucrece Each system had its centre in great celestial regions which communicated with the flaming and quenchless motor of all that is. Seraphita Then, the reflex of that Fount Spied below, will Reason mount Lordly and a quenchless force, Lighting Pain to its mad source, Scaring Fear till Fear escapes, Shot through all its phantom shapes. Poems — Volume 2 Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Until, I say, the perfect love, The last, the best, Like flame descending from above, Kindled my breast, Kindled my breast like ardent flame, With quenchless glow. Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm. Jane Eyre |
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