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- adjective Not
extinguished
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Examples
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Only the "soul of man, like unextinguished fire,/Yet burns toward Heaven," Jupiter declares of the three-thousand-year-old struggle in which Prometheus remains bound to Jupiter as his specter or shadow.
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But the flame that burned in the circle of the travellers whirled only before the eye in unextinguished longing.
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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Sickly yellow lights went to and fro in the houses, and some of the passing cabs flaunted unextinguished lamps.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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A visit so sudden, so unexpected, and so unaccountable, from an object that no discouragement could make him think of with indifference, had been a subject to him of conjecture and wonder that had revived all the hopes and the fears which had lately, though still unextinguished, lain dormant.
Cecilia 2008
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The Havard Lampoon has a not unextinguished history of satirizing popular culture.
Comment On Rowling Copyright Enforcement Christopher 2007
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The Havard Lampoon has a not unextinguished history of satirizing popular culture.
Archive 2007-10-01 Christopher 2007
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She had mastered her irritation and through the glass side of the room sent a wistful smile to his address, but I noticed the yet unextinguished anger in her eyes full of fire under her beautiful white eyebrows.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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Sickly yellow lights went to and fro in the houses, and some of the passing cabs flaunted unextinguished lamps.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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Just as he would; and the sense of expectation — of something wanted — bubbled unextinguished in little Jon.
Awakening 2004
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His eyes were small and red, and so deep set in the sockets, that each appeared like the unextinguished snuff of a farthing candle, gleaming through the horn of a dark lanthorn.
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