All branches of physical science demonstrate the fact that every completed manifestation, of whatever kind and on whatever scale, is started by the establishment of a nucleus, infinitely small but endowed with an unquenchable energy of attraction, causing it to steadily increase in power and definiteness of purpose, until the process of growth is completed and the matured form stands out as an accomplished fact.

You profess to love my child with strong and unquenchable passion?' 'Profess!

His enthusiasm for these scenic and historic interests was unquenchable,a source of perpetual enjoyment, which made him a most acceptable visitor wherever he chose to go, both among antiquaries and literary men, and ladies of rank and fashion.

Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish^. greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid^, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

Looking back on it I can recall just one woman I saw in France who maintained an unquenchable blitheness of spirit.

In vain, however, is the trial to quenchwhat, after all, is unquenchable.

For in a word, the Spanish Inquisition is not comparable to it; "a torment" and "execution" as it is, as he calls it in the poet, an unquenchable fire, and what not?

Hell at last, Yawning, received them whole, and on them closed Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain.

Each strain soared over the last, or united with others, near and far, in a chorus of the divinest pathosan expression of sweet, unutterable, unquenchable longing.

"When he was young and the subject was middle-aged, a Northerner, with fair hair and lean muscles under a skin bronzed by the tropics, and the unquenchable fire of youth in his eyes.

She took him, driving pretty fast, to the Moraine Hotel and was glad the distance was not greater, for after various heavy-handed and unquenchable preliminaries he kissed her as nearly on the mouth as possible, clinging to a half-lit cigar the while, just before she whipped around into the hotel drive.

The unquenchable thirst for notorietywhich he may have mistaken for famewas perpetually leading him into questionable positions, and finally covered his name with ridicule and confusion.

'And he shall gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he shall burn up with unquenchable fire.'

But now God hates our sin, and loves us; and therefore he desires above all things to deliver us from sin, and burn our sin up in his unquenchable fire, that we ourselves may not be burned up therein.

An unquenchable exuberance lived in him.

It is scarcely conceivable how Boaz Negro could have come through this much of his life still possessed of that unquenchable and priceless exuberance; how he would sing in the dawn; how, simply listening to the recital of deeds in gale or brawl, he could easily forget himself a blind man, tied to a shop and a last; easily make of himself a lusty young fellow breasting the sunlit and adventurous tide of life.

Recovering slowly, with agony, from each of these recurrent blows, his unquenchable exuberance had lived.

And he had lost something incalculably preciousthat hitherto unquenchable exuberance of the man.

And slowly at first, like the miracle of a green shoot pressing out from the dead earth, that priceless and unquenchable exuberance of the man was seen returning.

Unquenchable, after all.

R115340, 29Jul53, Marjorie Rees King (W) The unquenchable flame.

KELLY, R. C. Unquenchable fire.

Sing, prophetic, mystic walls, of the dreams of the builders; Sing in thundering tones that shall thrill us To try our dull discontent, our barren wisdom Against their propagating, unquenchable, questionless visions.

Diderot fought hard to obtain a hearing for his philosophical opinions; his first book was burnt by order of the parlement of Paris, while for his second he was clapped in jail; and all along he had to front the most formidable opposition, so formidable that all his fellow-workers were ready to yield, and were only held to their task by his indomitable resolution and unquenchable ardour.

We are surrounded on many sides by the same symptoms as those which awoke the unquenchable wrath of Savonarolaa hedonism that is more sick of happiness than an invalid is sick of pain, an art sense that seeks the assistance of crime since it has exhausted nature.