"Quenching" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... David there, And he took the sword that Saul had given him, Belted in gold and cased in figured steel, And it hung on David's loins. And Jonathan said, "Who fails in this, that is the last betrayal, The quenching of the holy spirit of God." And David said, "So be it." And they embraced, And kissed. And David went into the dawn. And Jonathan watched until ...
— Preludes 1921-1922 • John Drinkwater
... thank you," Alfred rejoined, at once moving over towards a well-known, low tavern, quenching in imagination a morbid thirst that seemed instantly created, by a draught ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur
... spirit did not flourish quite so vaingloriously at the council that night, and there was no more talk about the sky falling upon dauntless Chitan heads. The sky had fallen, and the effect was rather quenching than otherwise. The previous stores were counted over, and it was found that the men could not be served with three rounds apiece out of them. When this was announced, nobody thought of doubting the wisdom of the Maharajah's decision to shut up the gates of the city, and trust to the improbability ...
— The Story of Sonny Sahib • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... did come to them and teach them to drink, and then to bring him plate and clothes from their fathers' houses: and this Gabriel Holmes did advise to have had two houses set on fire, one after another, that while they were quenching of one they might be burning another. The boys did swear against one of them, that he had made it his part to pull out the plug out of the engine while it was a-playing; and it really was so. Well, this fellow Holmes was found guilty of the act of burning the house, and other things that ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... themselves. Alas! Thy very gifts, which should show them the hand from whence they flow, amuse them to such a degree as to hinder them from perceiving it. They live by Thee, and yet they live without thinking on Thee or, rather, they die by the Fountain of Life for want of quenching their drought in that vivifying stream; for what greater death can there be than not to know Thee, O Lord? They fall asleep in Thy soft and paternal bosom, and, full of the deceitful dreams by which they are tossed in their sleep, they are insensible of ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various
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