Blazing
['bleɪzɪŋ] or ['blezɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) shining intensely; 'the blazing sun'; 'blinding headlights'; 'dazzling snow'; 'fulgent patterns of sunlight'; 'the glaring sun' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blaze
(a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
Typist: Marvin
Examples
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to the snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For an instant she sat up, her cheeks flushed, and her eyes blazing from under the terrible mark upon her brow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He glared from one to the other of us with a pair of blazing black eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Welsbach made use of this fact to secure a burner in which the illumination depends upon the glowing of an incandescent, solid mantle, rather than upon the blazing of a burning gas. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was a good blazing fire, and unlighted candles on the table. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- By placing a chimney over the burning wick, a constant and uniform draught of air is maintained around the blazing gases, and hence a steady, unflickering light is obtained. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Holmes tossed it in among the blazing papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many scores of carriages, with blazing lamps, blocked up the street, to the disgust of No. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, again, I have heard it is no use your applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but real bright, blazing, fiery red. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The shops were blazing and packed with women, in the streets were men, mostly men, miners of all ages. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The passengers probably spend the long, blazing days looking out from under the awnings at Vesuvius and the beautiful city--and in swearing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You'd be in a Blazing bad way, if recalling to life was to come into fashion, Jerry! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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