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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
quench .
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Examples
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Mine eyes are blind and cannot see quencht by the flowing tear!
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Now if you aske what set this king on fire, To practise warre when he of peace did treat, It was his Pride, and neuer quencht desire, To spoile that Islands wealth, by peace made great: His
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The fier of _Spaynes_ pride, quencht by _Grinuils_ sword,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And yet for all the great sleep that came upon me, I could in no wise leave eating: and whereas when I was a man I could be contented with one or two loaves at the most, now my huts were so greedy that three panniers full would scantly serve me, and while I considered these things the morning came, and being led to a river, notwithstanding my Assie shamefastnesse I quencht my thirst.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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In darkness quencht -- gone ere their infant thought
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning
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But tho, on each side, they use never such powerfull arguments, to the young people, 'tis to no purpose; for there's fire in the flax, and go how it will, it must be quencht.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Of her lips 'honey-dew she gave me drink * And with her rosy cheeks quencht fire she set.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Of her lips honey-dew she gave me drink, * And with her rosy cheeks quencht fire she set.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Mine eyes are blind and cannot see quencht by the flowing tear!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The sea, which such a storm as his bare head, in hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up and quencht
SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2011
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