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

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

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

This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual op�ra bouffe case of mistaken identity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spirit of my spirit! who movest Through seraph veins in burning deity To light the quenchless pulses!—

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett