If the camp-fire had not been under the shelter of the boughs, it would have been quenched at once, but as it was there hovered over it mainly smoke, amid which narrow, blue little flames glittered.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Bits of ice quenched our thirst and the chill of night kept us from sweating.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
She had just quenched the fire.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard