Thus Sir John Mandeville tells us how when a holy maiden of Bethlehem, "blamed with wrong and slandered," was doomed to death by fire, "she made her prayers to our Lord that He would help her, as she was not guilty of that sin;" whereupon the fire was suddenly quenched, and the burning brands became red "roseres," and the brands that were not kindled became white "roseres" full of roses.

Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing; Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye.

Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, Raised by thy breath, has quenched the orb of day!

'Has accident or violence quenched his young spirit?' 'Worse than dead,' slowly replied the Sachem; and he looked pityingly at Helen, who now began to recover her senses.

'His fire weapon quenched the light of my lodge, and took from me the support of my old age.

The Lernean pangs are quenched.

Then they read to him some of the worthy acts that some of his servants had done; as how they had subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

There was little of the weary tramp who had quenched his throat at the school pump in the well groomed and quietly capable looking doctor.

And surely of him, more than of any other Roman, could it be said,as Sir Walter Scott said of Pitt, and as Gladstone quoted, and applied to Sir Robert Peel, "Now is the stately column broke, The beacon light is quenched in smoke; The trumpet's silver voice is still, The warder silent on the hill.

She was a brand snatched from the burning; his detailed eloquence had frightened her into heaven; salvation came in the nick of time; his words had plucked her from the edge of that lake of fire and brimstone where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

In Britain, too, you might have beheld this tendency, where the lordly curfew quenched the lights in castle and cot from beneath a very extinguisher of a roof.

Before the smart-stepping lamplighters were half done turning off the street lights, before the noisy market-houses all over the town, from Camp Callender to Carrollton, with their basket-bearing thousands of jesting and dickering customers, had quenched their gaslights and candles to dicker and jest by day, or the devotees of early mass had emerged from the churches, Rumor was on the run.

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

The fire in the village, too, is almost quenched, and the mayor will soon be here.

No sooner had they said this than they saw a pool of water close beside them and hastened to it and quenched their thirst.

Though his popularity was quenched in lunacy, his impress upon Irish politics remains as powerful and lasting as upon English literature.

If you could give yourself to him, why then the aspiration should be quenched within my own breast.

The fire in the farmer's house, etc., was immediately quenched with water, a fire kindled from this needfire, both in the farm-houses and offices, and the cattle brought to feel the smoke of this new and sacred fire, which preserved them from the murrain.

Every fire in the district having been quenched, new fire was made by the friction of wood in the island, and from this sacred flame all the hearths of the houses were lit afresh.

The cold wave quenched the flamean omen dread That telleth of the faithlessor the dead!

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon

"You might as well tell me before you go what the remark that I quenched was?

Everybody was convinced that a drop of water on the dusky forehead of these natives quenched the flames of hell.

They dug pits along an open shore, where they found good water, with which they quenched their thirst; and while employed in washing some linen for the wounded men, and almost ready to reimbark, one of their centinels came running towards them, calling out to put to sea without delay, as warlike Indians were coming towards them.

Casey saw the reddening sunlight strike upon the barrel with a brief shine, instantly quenched when the gun was thrust forward toward the other two whom it threatened.