Fires

Examples

• Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• How they must have tugged at the pitiless fetters as the fierce fires surged around them! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to the snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He sailed to the attack in a double line about sundown, putting the French between two fires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Let there be good fires. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In some great kilns fires are never allowed to cease. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Do you notice how it darts different coloured fires--it flashes really superbly--' They remained in silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Chinese ages ago heated their hollow tiled floors by underground furnace fires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If the old girl fires wide--once in a way--at the call of duty--look over it, George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• At present the crude open-pan system, where the brine was poured into open pans and fires were built below the pans, is almost obsolete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Bedroom fires blaze brightly all over the house, raising ghosts of grim furniture on wall and ceiling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The wild cat's round, green, wondering eyes were staring all the while like uncanny fires. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We are sure of excellent fires, continued he, and every thing in the greatest comfort. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The ringing of the curfew originated in England by William the Conqueror, who directed that at the ringing of the bell at eight o’clock all fires and lights should be extinguished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• How could you think of writing to me about chimneys and fires in such weather as this! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If their skill and their fires will stand it, their tempers won't. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Pyrenes to the number of 175 are distributed about the departments for combatting electrical fires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You, imbeciles, where the lights are yonder, eating and drinking, and warming yourselves at fires! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Lighting fires is one of my natural accomplishments. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The evenings were chilly, and by Mrs. Shaw's directions fires were lighted in every bedroom. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. Yorke _will_ have such fires even in warm summer weather. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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