Unconsuming

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1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. xxv. 80. Though pleasure merries the Sences for a while: yet horror after vultures the vnconsuming heart.

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[1718. Entertainer, No. 15. 97. No sooner shall the enjoyment be over, when Horrour will … act the Promethean Vulture upon the unconsuming Conscience.]

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1836. Keble, in Lyra Apost. (1849), 204. God of the unconsuming fire, On Horeb seen of old.

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1851. Trench, Sonnet, Poems (1865), 92. It straightway kindled then, and was afire, And with the unconsuming radiance blended.

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