Any hopes which he may have entertained respecting the intervention of Polybius in his favour must have been utterly quenched when he heard that the freedman, though formerly powerful with Messalina, had forfeited his own life in consequence of her machinations.

The noise of the mallet and chisel was scarcely quenched, the trumpets were hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shot into the spiritual land.

Our enthusiasm for genius or virtue is thus turned into a jest by the very person who has kindled it, and who thus fatally quenches the sparks of both.

Powder, powder, Etna, sulphure, fier: quench it, quench it.

Welbya little checkedreturned to the picture, studying it closely, and making a number of shrewd, or generous comments upon it, gradually quenched, however, by Fenwick's touchy or ungracious silence.

Come Tully and Terentia; One day shall shine on both our Nuptials; Feare not, ile quench the fire of your Fathers heate With my consent.

The fire of his savagery was an all-consuming flame, and it was too strongly kindled to be lightly quenched.

I am not so easy quenched.

A quaking administration, bent only on keeping political matters in perfect balance, and on quenching promptly, as best it might, any incipient blaze of anti-slavery zeal which might break out from its smoldering, dared make no further move against her.

She cometh first, who bare the seed and well Of springing sorrow, when to life she brought Paris: and that old King, who quenched not Quick in the spark, ere

E'en so, none dared, so fearful is the gorge, To gaze upon the river's loveliness, Except those inmates of the mountain caves, That in the noontide hour, to quench their thirst, Climb down, regardless of the huntsman's bow, Or save the vultures of the air,

exclaimed Constance, with tears, which she stoutly quenched, while from all around came sighs and moans of love and gratitude.

Through the screen of slender trunks could be seen miniature open parks carpeted with a soft tiny fern, not high enough to conceal the ears of a rabbit, or to quench the flame of the tiger lily that grew there.

The old enthusiastic sanguineness had been effectually quenched.