Use afire in a sentence
Sentences ending with afire
- And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire. [5]
- He's the one that sleeps in that single bed--the strangest creature; why, I don't believe you could get that man to sleep with another man, not if the house was afire. [5]
- I was pointed straight for one of these gates, and a-coming like a house afire. [5]
- He had not set the mill afire. [11]
- Did you ever see a house afire? [5]
- Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. [5]
- They come out like the theatre was afire. [9]
- There was fury in his face-fury and danger; his hair was disordered, his eyes afire. [11]
- The lighted match fell on a surplice which had dropped from his arms as he came from the vestry, and set it afire. [11]
- Why should she feel her body hot with shame, her cheeks afire? [9]
Short sentences using afire
- His brain was afire. [11]
More example sentences with the word afire in them
- The train was skirting an ancient town set on a hill, crowned with a castle and a Gothic church whose windows were afire in the setting sun. [9]
- She stooped down quick at the foot of the bed and give me a pull, and out I come; and when he turned back from the window there she stood, a-beaming and a-smiling like a house afire, and I standing pretty meek and sweaty alongside. [5]
- At mid-night last night we heard screams up stairs--Susy had set the lofty window curtains afire with a candle. [5]
- The governor's temper got afire, and he delivered an oath at him that knocked up the dust where it struck the ground, and told him to shoulder that cask or he would carve him to cutlets and send him home in a basket. [5]
- Cynthia kept her eyes on her plate, but she felt as though her body were afire. [9]
- The crimson glow drew him, held him, till his brain was afire also. [11]
- What is the Czar of Russia but a house afire in the midst of a city of eighty millions of inhabitants? [5]
- A bitter smile crept to his lips, and his face was afire. [11]
- And if I could furnish an American opportunity to staid Germany, I think I could wake her up like a house afire. [5]
- She had even been caulked; for Grits, from an unknown and unquestionably dubious source, had procured a bucket of tar, which we heated over afire in the alley and smeared into every crack. [9]
- I speak up and say, 'That's the Old People's cabin afire. [5]
- Now was she all afire with the thought that she, a woman, might by a single word give the South a leader. [9]
- Her eyes were afire, and her face was as pale as marble; all its slight but healthy glow had fled. [11]
- Tom was all afire and 'most out of breath when we come tearing in where Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally and Benny was. [5]
- He was in a maelstrom of agony, his veins were afire, his lips were parched. [11]
- After a while a lot of them saplings was mowed off clean by the bullets, and then the woods caught afire, and that was hell. [9]
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