quenchless

Thanks to his enemies’ heedlessness, the world suffered one last Napoleonic assault — the battle of Waterloo, where 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, a high price to pay for underestimating one man’s quenchless ambition.

Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”

As she went farther and farther back in time, she spoke of the old slave ships, and the horror of the Middle Passage, retelling the stories she had heard as a child, stories of whips and chains and branding irons, of a quenchless thirst, and the black smell of death in the hold of a Yankee slaver.

Though the quenchless quality of his literary thirst had soon depleted the shelves of the prison library, the prison chaplain and others sympathetic to Andrews kept him supplied with parcels from the Kansas City public library.

They came shortly after he arrived at Chapel Hill, a hot prospect who joined one of the nation’s celebrated teams and soon discovered a quenchless taste for alcohol, partying, life in excess.