ever-burning

• “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

• “Lost in those ever-burning flames, I let him take my hand.”

  Changeling

• “    Droop'd not her eyes their gaze unquenchable, ever-burning”

  Poems and Fragments

• “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

• “The servant had one of the ever-burning torches that gave no smoke.”

  Simon & Schuster: Burning Tower

• “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

• “COOPER: You're looking at the answer to that ever-burning question.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 15, 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

• “On a stand beside the bed was a little ever-burning lamp that she kept filled with the finest scented oil.”

  Conqueror's Moon

• “In this vice at least there is something permanent, founded indeed upon nature and not dependent on fantasy, something present in the blood like an ever-burning ember, for ever setting one on fire and, maybe, not to be quickly extinguished, even with years.”

  Crime and Punishment

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