The terror of the crew had reacted upon their spirits; the groaning of the wind in the shrouds, the seething of the waves, and the frightened litany below quenched their exultation and silenced their laughter.
India, Turkey, and China have groaned with the desolation; and by it have been quenched such lights as Haller and De Quincey.
The traitorous wreckers' hands Have quenched the blaze that poured its rays Along the Hatteras sands.
Say that when Fancy closed her wings And Passion quenchedhis fire, Love, Love, still echoed from the strings As from Anacreon's lyre!
That this high Quarrel should be quenched in death As some vexed petty plaint unworthy breath; That the blood and the tears should never rise Renewed, accusing in grave judgment skies .
Such hopes bequenched in this despair, Grace chilled to granite everywhere?
A woman by whom is quenched the anger of the king.
The candles were lit, but they were quenched upon the spot.
The worm that never dies is more intolerable than cancer; the fire that is never quenchedkeener than that of fever.
She smiled and then a rush of tears quenched the smile.
My throat throbbed drily, but water nor whiskey would not have quenched my thirst.
Every thirsty one that cometh his thirst is quenched by thee: can it be that I thirst while thou art still our refuge?
And now my first desire to thee which burned in my soul hath been quenched and exchanged for brotherly love yet stronger than what forewent it.
There is a well not farre from stonie Stratford, which conuerteth manie things into stone; and an other in Wales, which is said to double or triple the force of anie edge toole that is quenched in the same.
The voice of tenderest love must be quenched when it would keep us from doing God's will.
No power in his being has been quenchedby dying, no beauty dimmed, no faculty destroyed.
After resting a little the upper part became purer, and from this we thankfully quenched our thirst.
The blood of the birds, however, somewhat quenchedour thirst.
And in the helmet he drew from the river's stream and quenched his thirst with the water.
With them is quenched the blast of unwearied flame, and at once she stays the course of rivers as they rush roaring on, and checks the stars and the paths of the sacred moon.
She who had carried every force triumphantly with her, and quenched every opposition, bitter and determined though that had been, was now a thrall to be dragged almost by force in an unworthy train.
It was a stupor which quenched every voice--a great silence through the country, only broken by the penitential psalms at Tours.
The girl is lost to him here, but the power of love is not quenched nor even lessened by this disaster.
Willingly she drew her a measure from the stream, which the other quaffed with the moderation of one whose thirst is habitually quenched with wine rather than water.
She looked languid and jaded; the beautiful light of young love, which the night before had shone with a soft, lambent flame in every glance, seemed to have burned itself out in her hollow eyes, or to have been quenched in tears.
The mule having quenched its thirst, the general seated himself beside the spring; and when he had refreshed himself on some crusts and water, gave himself up to contemplation.
It was midnight when I fell asleep, having quenched my thirst, at the spring; but the thought of home seriously disturbed my slumbers.
When the sun of poetry rose in a more glowing form in Surrey, the ferocious king, so ready with the headsman's axe, quenched it in blood.
It has subdued kingdoms, obtained promises, quenched the violence of fire, and escaped the edge of the sword.
At the first onslaught, Buinne the Red, son of Fergus, sallied forth, quenched the flames, and drove back the Ultonians with great slaughter.
I see three torchesquenched this night," she said.
And in addition it were foolish to believe that the garrison had not been warned.
It was next quenched in their kettle, wherein they had boiled a quantity of flour down to the consistence of thin starch.
Every one having quenched his thirst, we stretched ourselves under the shade of a small grove, while the beneficent Mr. Carnet and two of our officers set forward to Senegal to announce our arrival, and to get us boats.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
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