Flamed

Examples

• If the woman's fierce temper once got beyond her control, and once flamed out on me, she might yet say the words which would put the clue in my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The girl's temper flamed out directly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The fire of Dorothea's anger was not easily spent, and it flamed out in fitful returns of spurning reproach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• After all it is a club flamed for me and I have an obligation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of gray smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the very first word about giving you a start she flamed out about some money you'd got from Gus; I never knew her so hot before. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typist: Wilhelmina