Thus old age crept upon him; but far from quenching the fires of enterprise within his adventurer's soul, it brought a restlessness that urged him at last to make a bid for liberty.
People could not afford lemons, so vinegar and soda were used to make a refreshing, thirst-quenching drink.
The evening, in which the air cooled first in the draws, then lifted softly to the tableland, cooling the body, quenching the thirst as one breathed it deeply.
As she read, Malcolm was walking towards her along the top of the dune, but not until he came almost above where she lay, did she hear his step in the soft quenching sand.
After this carburizing these objects are usually hardened by quenchingin cold water (see S 28).
Quickly, now, for as I forecast, the Tarn of Eternity is quenching the fires of hell, and quenching the very life from me.
Here we see how the believer may come to Christ for the quenching of his own thirst, and then draw on, or drink more deeply of, Christ for the quenching of the thirst of others.
The chief Topicks of their Preachers was the great Evil of Thirst, and the Folly there was in quenching it.
Here the standard rigorist proposition that there is sin both in the lust and in the act of satisfying it is applied to drink, where the thirst and its quenching are both treated as vicious.
Then the riders turned to help the thorp-dwellers in quenching their fires, and in some two hours they had got all under wherein was any hope, and the rest they must let burn away.
And there was a pretty stream running down the mid-most of the street, and though it were dyed with blood that day, it was no worse for the quenching of the flames.
At last the pail reached the end of the line, and the man nearest the blaze proceeded to throw on the quenching fluid.
Then, when there was a good head of gas accumulated in the cylinder, he would open another valve, and the fire-quenching fluid would spurt from the hose.
The young firemen soon found they had all they could do in quenching this fire.
Too many vertues, or too much of one Begets in you unjust suspition; And ignorance of vice, makes vertue lesse, Quenchingcompassion of our wrechednesse.
Now, I am confident the cares of the world are coming in and quenching the Spirit with a great many.
He may be quenching the Spirit of God, and he may not glorify God as he should, but if he is a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost dwells in him.
The different degrees of hardness required for steel are given by the process called tempering, which is effected by heating the steel up to a certain temperature, and then quenching it suddenly in cold water.
The peculiarity of these steels is that no quenching or tempering is required.
Hot water thus administered or injected is quickly taken into the blood, increasing its volume, diluting its impurities and quenching the great thirst which is so marked a symptom in this condition.
This result, be it noted, was not due to any real quenching of the bright lines of the flame, but to the augmentation of the intensity of the adjacent spectrum.
Quenching the light by the ray-filter at F, and placing the pile at P, the totally reflected heat-beam is immediately felt by the pile, and declared by the galvanometric deflection.
In our first lecture we entered fully into the production of colours by absorption, and we spoke repeatedly of the quenching of the rays of light.
Thus, when white light is employed, the red sifts it by quenching the green, and the green sifts it by quenching the red, both exhibiting the residual colour.
One is afraid of quenchingthe smoking flax, but this play was selected for performance at the Oireachtas before a vast audience in the Rotunda.
It also cools and cleanses the whole body, renders it brisk and lively, and is very efficacious in quenching thirst.
A quantity of salt thrown into water will increase its power in quenching the flames, and muddy water is better for this purpose than clear water.
Can He not make living and thirst-quenching water flow forth from the jaw-bone of an ass?
The attaching over much importance to the light of natural reason is a quenching of the Spirit of God.
Excited with the hope of quenching their thirst, they were with much difficulty prevented from rushing about in pursuit of the phantom that was so terribly tantalising them.
His ill-humour had arisen from the circumstance that, on seeking the place where he was in the habit of quenching his thirst, he had found it occupied by strange intruders.
Everything was unheeded but the mad raging desire of quenching their thirst.
The quenching of a host of smaller stars may involve as much loss of life as that of a few brilliant ones.
I extend my hand to him thus: quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of controll To.
I run before King Harries victory, Who in a bloodie field by Shrewsburie Hath beaten downe yong Hotspurre, and his Troopes, Quenching the flame of bold Rebellion, Euen with the Rebels blood.
That hand shall burne in neuer-quenching fire, That staggers thus my person.
He was observed by the quick eye of Golah, who called to him to come away; which he did, but not before quenching his thirst, that did not appear to be very great.
I dined at Sir Stephen Fox's: after dinner came a fellow who ate live charcoal, glowingly ignited, quenching them in his mouth, and then champing and swallowing them down.
