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Sentences starting with burning

Burning lips were pressed to hers, and at the same instant she felt herself released, and Helene's footsteps and the rustle of her dress were heard in the room. [2]
Burning like a clear oil, it has none of the heaviness and fatness of the pine and the balsam. [4]
Burning and shivering by turns, he was at last forced to lie down. [10]
Burning torches flared between the rows of sphinxes which connected the various gates with the main building, and the now empty house of the god Apis was so surrounded by colored fires that it gleamed like a white limestone rock in a tropical sunset. [10]

Sentences ending with burning

There was no wind blowing--the candle had not even flickered when burning. [11]
Between him and where the sound came from was a fire burning. [11]
Suppose the man were evil, then the Church should try to snatch him like a brand from the burning. [11]
The other stove was a large silver bird's-nest, in which likewise charcoal was burning. [10]
Now she could venture to raise herself, and to look in at the open window; the door of communication between the two rooms was closed, but a streak of light showed her that in the farther room, which was the sitting-room, a lamp was burning. [10]
When it ceases to be so, then the Rys will vanish from the world, and be as stubble of the field ready for the burning. [11]
Morning and Night they travel with me; my camp is set by the pines, its fires are burning--are burning. [11]
Only one of the three little vessels filled with oil that hung from it was burning. [10]
Can you believe that in all Spain there is no fresh butter to be had, either for bread or in the kitchen for roast meat, but instead rancid oil, which we should think just fit for burning? [10]
In a space surrounded with palms and ti-trees a great fire was burning. [11]

Short sentences using burning

What is burning there? [10]
He was burning hot. [2]
The convent is burning! [10]
Kald's eyes showed burning satisfaction. [11]
The lights were burning low. [5]
It's burning! [2]

Sentences containing burning two or more times

The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
For there is a fire comparable to the burning of dry jungle and grass; most sudden, high-blazing: and another fire which we liken to the burning of coal, or even of anthracite coal, but which no known thing will put out. [6]

More example sentences with the word burning in them

Meanwhile downstairs in young Nicholas Bolkonski's bedroom a little lamp was burning as usual. [2]
If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]
But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
I do believe you have come on foot in the burning sun. [10]
Her fervour, repressed yet palpable, was like a flame burning before their altars--a flattery to which the learned, being human, are quick to respond. [9]
Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?--the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? [5]
A cynical cosmopolitanism would have left her cold, but here, apparently, was a cultivated man burning with a sense of the world's wrongs. [9]
Albeit it had worn another aspect than this brand new flame, which I now felt burning and blazing up from the early-lighted and long smouldering fire, nevertheless it had been of the best, and faithful and true. [10]
Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or--if need must--to perish for and with him. [10]
Passionate as his words were, his manner was strangely quiet, but his white and glistening face and his burning eyes showed how deep was his anger. [11]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
Eye and ear witnesses had reported that, notwithstanding his Majesty's positive orders to avoid her old home, she had entered the house and the knight's apartments, knelt beside his couch, and even kissed his weak, burning hand with tender devotion. [10]
The South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess; the North, betrayed as they believe, brooding on wrong and burning for revenge. [7]
His heart was with them all: not because it was their church that was burning, but because it was something dear to them. [11]
Therefore while Erasmus, with burning head and great excitement, was still urging his friend to come in, Wolf unexpectedly bade him a hasty and resolute farewell. [10]
The door and windows were closed, and a green myrtle-berry candle was burning on the table. [9]
In Zorrillo's tent, which was usually brightly lighted until a late hour of the night, only one miserable brand was burning, beside which sat the sleepy bar-maid, darning a hole in her frieze-jacket. [10]
The little light which the General saw was the burning fuse. [11]
Now she knew where he was in hiding-and she tried to laugh, for the pain she felt seemed too acute and burning for tears to allay or cool it. [10]
It was wicked, what she was doing, but she gloried in it; and even the sight, in burning red letters, of Gruber's Cafe failed to bring on a revulsion by its association with her sister Lise. [9]
The horses alone were stirring-flicking off the flies with their flowing tails, or turning to bite the burning stings they inflicted. [10]
Between them fires were burning, round which were gathered groups of Roman soldiers and imperial servants. [10]
A thousand fires were burning, and there were no sounds save the murmuring voices of myriads of men, and the stamp of hoofs where the Cavalry and Mounted Infantry horses were picketed. [11]
The abandoned campfires were burning themselves out in the faint morning light. [2]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
But this time we thank Heaven that it is not the smoke of burning homes, --only some resin the "Johnnies" set on fire before they left. [9]
Mary fetched some water and bathed her brow, and the burning wound in her head, and by the time Selene had once more opened her eyes, dame Hannah had returned. [10]
Just high enough was the little chair that of a certain day in the year its owner might look out and see mystic fires burning round the Paternosters, and lighting up the sea with awful radiance. [11]
A lamp which was still burning hung from the ceiling, but Frau Ratzer raised the tallow candle she had carried to the door, threw its light upon her face, and nodded approvingly. [10]
A small panel was soon found, he had plenty of brushes and colors to choose from, and in a few minutes, a burning heart, transfixed by an arrow, was completed. [10]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
And her hair was red, burning red, the very color of Typhon. [10]
The sun's light was obscured, but the gigantic frames of huge burning galleys served for torches to light the combatants. [10]
Her own, mercifully, was in the shadow, and burning now with a shame that was insupportable. [9]
The old physician was holding the gasping woman in his arms, and Eva knelt beside the high bedstead sobbing, as she covered the dry, burning hand with kisses. [10]
But while he was feeling the ropes on the prisoner's arms, the glare of the burning torch, which lighted him, fell on the fugitive's rude, deserted couch. [10]
A tiny fire was burning near, and two sentinels stepped forward as I rode boldly on the entrance. [11]
The planet Mars was burning like a red coal; the northern constellation was slanting downward about its central point of flame; and while he looked, a falling star slid from the zenith and was lost. [6]
A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I sat down before it with a comforting sense of relief. [5]
The sculptor's head was burning feverishly when he entered the vehicle. [10]
Besides, her head was burning after the dancing and the wine which she had drunk. [10]
Thus, ere she was aware of it, her burning anguish changed into a cheerful remembrance. [10]
But her face was all flushed, and her eyes like burning beads. [11]
We had no wanton desire to wound even their feelings or trample upon their prejudices, but we were out of water, thus early in the day, and were burning up with thirst. [5]
The grey granite walls of the valley exhaled fiercer and fiercer heat and drops of perspiration had long been pouring from the burning brows of the three men on the cliff. [10]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
Often I shivered violently, and anon I was burning hot; my adventure had given me a chill and fever. [11]
Even on the verge of the last ambushed passage her senses came back; but they came with a stark realization of the peril ahead: it looked out of her eyes as a face shows itself at the window of a burning building. [11]
He frequently blew upon the burning spot in his flesh, over which a bit of cloth was wrapped, but curiosity concerning the result of this entertaining brawl was stronger than the wish to have it bandaged and healed. [10]
And he turned upon me like a fighting-cock and--and he gave me a box on the ear; such a slap, it is burning now--and all sorts of colors danced before my eyes. [10]
The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair. [9]
The wreck lodged upon a sandbar, and when the Boreas turned the next point on her upward journey it was still burning with scarcely abated fury. [5]
We were burning up with the heat. [5]
Then they went up to bed, and in their delirium of bliss they forgot and left the candle burning in the parlor. [5]
Finally she gave up the unavailing struggle, cooled her burning face with cold water, and tightened the straps of her sandals to go to the temple; near the god himself she hoped she might in some degree recover the peace she could not find here. [10]
All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
The clang and tumult were still going on, and the remorseless fires were burning fiercely as before; for few changes of night and day brought rest or quiet there. [12]
There was a tribunal once in France, as you may remember, called the Chambre Ardente, the Burning Chamber. [6]
As a beautiful tree beside a burning house is seized by the neighboring flames, although immediately protected with cold water, Maria, in spite of her long-cherished resolve to receive him coolly, was overwhelmed by the warmth of her husband's feelings. [10]
Barbara's bow-window was touched by it, and--what did it mean?--a small lamp must still be burning in her room, for the window was illuminated, though but dimly. [10]
It was a torch burning in front of Phil Boldrick's hut. [11]
I got here too late to see the funeral of the 10 victims by the burning of the Pacific hotel in 7th street. [5]
Thus they went together to the door of the church, and out into the white, burning sunlight. [9]
Life has leaves to tread And flowers to cherish; summer round thee glows; Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed, But while its petals still are burning red Gather life's full-blown rose! [6]
Philip also wrote to Ruth; but though this letter may have glowed, it was not with the heat of burning anthracite. [5]
He then began to pace the room in deep thought, often going to the opening which served as a window, to cool his burning forehead and see if dawn were near. [10]
They said so to Jean Jacques when he stood with his eyes fixed on the burning fabric, which nothing could save; but he showed no desire to speak. [11]
As Mitiahwe turned to her, a strange burning light in her eyes, Swift Wing said: "It is good. [11]
The blood mounted to her face at this thought, and with a burning brow she walked to the open window. [10]
He was burning to hear Barrow try it. [5]
We went aft to find some breakfast, and the first thing we noticed was that there was a dim light burning in a compass back there under a hood. [5]
I was burning to climb the bank and ask him whether he had seen the Indian fall. [9]
I undressed, went to bed, and when I was roused by a strange burning sensation in my throat I felt so weak that I could scarcely lift my arm. [10]
People were hurrying through the long street of the town, and torches were burning, but they came by a roundabout to the stables safely. [11]
We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
Her pulse was throbbing violently and her brow was burning when she knocked at the door of Apel, the carrier, who had taken her into his waggon at Schweinau, and the good old man and his wife received and nursed her. [10]
But twice or thrice during the night I waked to see the torch still shining, and caught the fragrance of consuming pine, and minded not at all the smoke the burning made. [11]
I crossed the threshold in trembling, and as soon as she beheld me she cried out, with burning cheeks, which glowed not so, for sure, from the blaze in the chimney: "Margery, Margery! [10]
I felt every thread and knot burning into my soul, and could not cast it off nor even defend myself. [10]
Sad, yes, sad thoughts of thee my heart doth swell, And burning recollections throng my brow! [5]
It seemed as though he cast his burning words and languishing glances at my lady in the box, whereupon there was a deal of nudging round about. [9]
The world couldn't think that you could be so careless of your opportunities, or that I would pay for the candle without burning it. [11]
The very first thing one feels like doing when he gets into camp, all burning up and dusty, is to hunt up a bath. [5]
His eyes swam; then there rushed into them the flame which always made them illumine his mediaeval face like the light from "the burning bush. [11]
He did not then realize the significance of the burning of Moscow, and looked at the fires with horror. [2]
The burning of their town had brought new and fearful suffering on the stricken Memphites, and notwithstanding Katharina's death the Nile still did not rise. [10]
The eyes of the whole congregation were on him, and he could feel the guilt ooze out of his burning face. [4]
In five minutes the whole chancel was burning, and the sleeping man waked in the midst of smoke and flame. [11]
But Dorothy led the way upstairs, a spot of colour burning each of her cheeks. [9]
The scene of the third act represented a palace in which many candles were burning and pictures of knights with short beards hung on the walls. [2]
Instead of comforting the terrified souls, or encouraging their faith and bidding them hope for better times, he set before them in burning words the punishment that awaited their wicked despondency. [10]
I wondered if the suspicious and timid and wasteful Emperor would keep the gas burning all night in his room. [4]
Some chemistry of the soul had taken place in him in the hour when he drove to the Manor Cartier from Vilray, and it produced a strange fire, which merged into the reflection of the sky above the burning mill. [11]
The fire in the smithy was extinguished, no hammer fell on the anvil; for the wounded man lay in a burning fever; every loud noise disturbed him. [10]
The curtains of the sick-room were lowered and a small lamp, burning behind a screen, shed but a feeble light. [10]
On this night the same old loneliness beset Venters, the old habit of sad thought and burning unquiet had its way. [13]
As Austen took the reins the secretary looked up at him, his mild blue eyes burning with an unsuspected fire. [9]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
He sat in the place where Kaid had left him, his face drawn and white, his eyes burning, but with no other "sign of agitation. [11]
When they left the place of burial, the fire was burning low, for they had talked long. [11]

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