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And to the gentle persuasions of the nuns he said he must be gone, 'for he must stay a wrong that, if suffered, would sink the kingdom in unquenchable shame and ruin. Then with Sir Bors he rode southwards, full fiercely, and never resting to eat, but taking food as he rode.
The Applebys, who had mellowed among streets and shops, were very much like the Tubbses of Cape Cod. Father was, in his unquenchable fondness for Mother, like Romeo, like golden Aucassin. But also in his sly fondness for loafing on a sunny grass-bank, smoking a vile pipe and arguing that the war couldn't last more than six months, he was very much like Uncle Joe Tubbs.
Yet, in the great imperial federation of which they dreamed, they never doubted the right of the mother country to act with overmastering authority in certain crises. That right, and the unquenchable affection of exiles for the land whence they came, constituted for them "the connexion."
"That, I presume," says she, "is a specimen of what Aunt Cornelia refers to as your unquenchable impertinence." "Oh!" says I. "If you've been gettin' Auntie's opinion of me " "I have," says Myra; "and, as a near relative of Verona's, I trust you'll pardon me if I seem a bit critical on my own part." "Don't mind me at all," says I. "You don't like the way I talk or the color of my hair. Go on."
"We will put up some kind of a game that calls for a face wash and a forfeit. If Rosy objects I'll get the boys to wash it for her." "Oh, that would be rude," insisted Dorothy. "Not for campers," insisted the unquenchable Nat, "It might be for ministers, but not for campers." It was not late enough to leave the porch, so the talk drifted to Dalton matters.
His repose might not be perfectly serene, but when he ruminated on impending or possible calamities his tongue did not cleave to his mouth, his throat was not parched with unquenchable thirst, he was not incessantly stimulated to employ his superfluous fertility of thought in motion.
He knew it at its worst too, when narrow cunning and unquenchable bitterness transform it. The change passed over Conroy's face and then quickly passed away again. "By God!" said Conroy, "it's a great notion. To buck against the British Lion!" Bob remembered the things which he had heard and half heeded about Conroy's ancestry.
The new mayor had as qualifications for his office two facts only: he was the senior deputy of the city to the National Assembly; he possessed an unquenchable supply of civic and complimentary eloquence. Behind this figurehead the sections soon built up a new municipality or town council made up of delegates from the sections, and that varied in numbers at different times.
Another example of her unquenchable youth has also a Chicago setting. During the World's Fair a certain clergyman made an especially violent stand in favor of closing the Fair grounds on Sunday. Miss Anthony took issue with him.
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