Quenched Sentence Examples

Mineral water quenched my thirst more than any other beverage.

The bottom is formed by a water-tank and the ashes are quenched here.

Their thirst for exploration was not quenched, however.

Fire destroys earth and is quenched by water, but it is also fed by air.

His new occupations by no means quenched his literary activity.

For its extraction from zircon the mineral is heated and quenched in water to render it brittle, and then reduced to a fine powder, which is fused with three to four parts of acid potassium fluoride in a platinum crucible.

It is said that the people wept as they passed by; but if so this may have been a customary formality, for the religion of these nations must have quenched all human sympathy.

His victory at Stirling lit a fire which was never quenched, and began the long and cruel wars of independence on which Scotland now entered.

The structure function project will be carried out in the quenched approximation first.

The new approach is tested on quenched configurations using several staggered actions combined with nonrelativistic heavy quarks.

How strange, too; for in the pure- lidded eyes he seemed to see the soft light of reason not entirely quenched.

It is the place where the fire never goes out, where the worm never dies, where the thirst is never quenched.

The fuel, wood or charcoal, which served both to heat and to deoxidize the ore, has so strong a carburizing action that it would turn some of the resultant metal into " natural steel," which differs from wrought iron only in containing so much carbon that it is relatively hard and brittle in its natural state, and that it becomes intensely hard when quenched from a red heat in water.

Accordingly, in ' the ninth book, when they are still protected by the rampart (see 348 sqq.), he rejects gifts and fair words alike; in the sixteenth he is moved by the tears and, of Patroclus, and the sight of the Greek ships on fire; in the nineteenth his anger is quenched in grief.

It is a thirst that will not be quenched by the waters at the bottom of Jacob 's well.

However, for the sword to be fully keyed to its owner it needs to be quenched in the blood of a victim.

It seems so, yet Jerome states that its spark, ' was not quenched even in the heart of Cain '.

The watering device holds enough water to keep your tree quenched for days on end, so you can head out of town and return to a tree that hasn't dropped all of its needles.

His mathematical enthusiasm was for the time completely quenched, and during two years the printed volume of his Mecanique, which he had seen only in manuscript, lay unopened beside him.

Their structure undergoes no changes when they are rapidly quenched at high temperature, that is to say, they cannot be hardened.

When quenched as far as possible by rotation of a nicol prism, it exhibits a residue of a more intense blue colour; and further it is found that the direction of the most nearly complete polarization becomes inclined to the direction of the primary rays.

Bruges was forced after strenuous resistance to submit to the loss of its most cherished privileges in 1438, and the revolt of Ghent was quenched in the " red sea " (as it was styled) of Gavre in 1453.

All hopes of conquest on the transalpine side were now quenched; but the keys of Italy had been given to the dukes of Savoy; and their attention was still further concentrated upon Lombard conquests.

Whether his agents did, or did not, pour oil on the flames of civil strife, which he thereupon quenched by his Act of Mediation, 19th of February 1803, is a complex question.

These hopes were again quenched in blood; the political idea of the Messiah, the restorer of the Jewish state, still finds utterance in the daily prayer of every Jew (the Shemone Esre), and is enshrined in the system of Rabbinical theology; but its historical significance was buried in the ruins of Jerusalem.3 2 The Targumic passages that speak of the Messiah are registered by Buxtorf, Lex.

After burning fiercely for six days it suddenly started afresh in the northern quarter of the city and desolated the regions of the Circus Flaminius and the Via Lata, and by the time that it was finally quenched only four of the fourteen regiones remained untouched; three had been utterly destroyed and seven reduced to ruins.

He'd calmed her with a simple touch last night and quenched her body two nights ago.