Flames

Examples

• She turned out the wall-lights, and peered at herself between the candle-flames. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One night he built a fire in the grate and started to throw pistol cartridges into the flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The flames are now pretty low, so let us dash through at once and take them by surprise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When they were silent again, nothing stirred in the stillness but the bubble and the crackle of the flames. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• While most of us think of burning as a process in which flames and smoke occur, there are in reality many modes of burning accompanied by neither flame nor smoke. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The engines and dynamos made a horrible racket, from loud and deep groans to a hideous shriek, and the place seemed to be filled with sparks and flames of all colors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There he stood, his eyes still fastened on the flames in a changeless, vacant stare. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The mounting flames had curled round the building, as it fell, and was destroyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They look glorious flames, Margaret, in your black hair. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The unthinking, he said, the ungrateful, to scorn him who, amidst blood and flames, would have saved her life at the risk of his own! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The candle-flames flickered in the frozen air, in the intense silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Hot coals, red-hot stoves, gas flames, and candles shine by their own light, and are self-luminous. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber, as if it were in flames, and accommodated with a bed at the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The devil will toss me into the flames on his three-pronged fork for this night's work, I know! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am to-night, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Our troops were directed to extinguish the flames, which they finally succeeded in doing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As he did so, he noticed how thin her hands looked against the rising light of the flames. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Savage warrior, said Rebecca, rather will I perish in the flames than accept safety from thee! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We are hemmed in by flames in front and flood behind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The user inserted the nozzle in the liquid, drew it into the pump, and then ejected it on the flames. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Bottles filled with brine and placed around the premises will afford considerable protection, especially when used upon the flames when the fire just begins. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Be that as it may, the National troops found the city in flames, and used every effort to extinguish them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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