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

Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward