inextinguishable

We leave that to the lesser creatures, who spend their courtship loudly protesting how unutterable, immeasurable, and inextinguishable is their love, as though, forsooth, each dreaded lest the other deem it a bad bargain.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Here is an irregular row of beacon fires, once all luminous as suns; and with a certain inextinguishable erubescence still, in the abysses of the dead deep Night.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

The laughter that followed this sally was of the sort which in poetic phraseology is called inextinguishable; and one of the wedding guests who heard the joke and the laughter, assures this writer that the storm of mirthful applause was chiefly due to the delicacy and sweetness of the intonations by which the speaker's facile voice, with its old and once familiar art, made the audience realize the charms of youth, beauty and innocence -- charms which, so far as the lawyer's wrinkled visage was concerned, were conspicuous by their absence.

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

As printed in Laing's Knox (ii. 120) the word "inextinguishable," and in the Acts of Parliament (ii. 534; iii. 22) the word "unstancheabill," is used instead of "unquencheable."

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

"inextinguishable", which had probably been kept alight since the days of Brigid, was put out by order of Henry de Londres, Archbishop of Dublin, who perhaps thought the practice savoured of superstition.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

"inextinguishable;" but the wedding was an "occasion," and in the succeeding year of festivity it is presumed that the names of "Debs" and

Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

And you are itching, feeling an inextinguishable sexual desire, its nightmare ink burnt in your head, nameless and without pain, facing the end.

the swan gliding before death Jerry Ratch 2011

She was inextinguishable—through the darkest moments, she lit my way without fail.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

Years later, I understood her need for those lamps, those inextinguishable beacons through the darkest moments of her life.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

There were thuds from the cushions, grunts from the man, squeals, yelps and giggles from the girls, and from the totality of the combat inextinguishable laughter and a ripping and tearing of fragile textures.

CHAPTER III 2010