quenchless
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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2017
By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive, benevolent prudence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" that Biographer Freeman finds in George Washington is an apt description of Freeman himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small one.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
