ever-burning

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Sir Laurence Gomme regards this as an illustration of belief in a house-spirit whose residence is the hearth and whose element is the ever-burning sacred flame.

Leap Year -- Day John 2008
Lost in those ever-burning flames, I let him take my hand.

Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007
Droop'd not her eyes their gaze unquenchable, ever-burning

Poems and Fragments 2006
Spewing, shrieking rockets from China were not beyond Sinan's war skills, nor was the Byzantine boiler that spewed ever-burning Greek Fire.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
Droop'd not her eyes their gaze unquenchable, ever-burning

Poems and Fragments 2006
Now they would be closed, only a few watchmen drowsily keeping an eye on the precious crystal created by the artisans and the ever-burning fires.

Hot Pursuit Jensen, Kathryn, 1949- 2005
COOPER: You're looking at the answer to that ever-burning question.

CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2005 2005
The servant had one of the ever-burning torches that gave no smoke.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005
The servant had one of the ever-burning torches that gave no smoke.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005
In every gonpo temple a silver bowl holding from four to six gallons is replenished annually with this almond-scented oil for the ever-burning light before the shrine of Buddha.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004