Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Quench

Quench in tears like a star in the sea.
—Philip James Bailey

Quenched … like torch-flame choked in dust.
—Robert Browning

Quenched like a consumed torch.
—Edmund Spenser

Quenched as a flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne