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Sentences starting with fire

Fire and water would unite sooner than Mark Antony and cowardice! [10]
Fire is fought with fire, and you would be using all possible means to do what you esteem a great good. [11]
Fire and tea were far enough from his thought. [4]
Fire had destroyed the dwelling-place of justice, like the Egyptian cities to whom the prophet had announced a similar fate a thousand years since. [10]
Fire is beautiful; some day it will be useful, I think. [5]
Fire the mine roared stout Risingh. [4]
Fire was darting from beneath his bushy eyebrows. [9]
Fire is come down from heaven! [10]
Fire and water could harmonize more easily than these two men, and Barbara foresaw which of them in this conflict would be the extinguishing flood. [10]
Fire can stand any wind, but is easily blown out, and then come smouldering and smoke, and profitless, slow combustion without the cheerful blaze which sheds light all round it. [6]

Sentences ending with fire

Oh, see what woman's woes and human wants require, Since that great day hath spread the seed of sinful fire. [5]
I was alone with the servant, a bright fire was blazing in the stove, and, obedient to a hasty impulse, I told him to throw the whole contents of the box into the fire. [10]
She shall live with me: I will spread the cedar branches and stir the fire. [11]
I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire. [6]
I knew exactly what would happen if I tried to build a fire. [4]
Lady Tynemouth's eyes were turned to the window; Stafford stood looking into the fire. [11]
The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
The two men were on an island with a shore of fire. [11]
First, they must wear out her strength, then frighten her with the fire. [5]
Some hours later we encountered a huntsman, from whom I procured some gun-grease; with this I filled the watch, and heated it in by the fire. [4]

Short sentences using fire

I said it was fire. [5]
I've got you under fire. [5]
But to turn the fire. [9]
It is a scorching fire. [10]
Build your fire on top. [4]
Her brain was on fire. [11]
The house was on fire! [6]
But fire away, now! [5]
The fire burned lower. [11]
Outward calm, but inner fire. [9]

Sentences containing fire two or more times

Herod tells that when a house was on fire the Egyptians never thought of extinguishing the fire until their cats were all saved, and that when a cat died, they shaved their heads in sign of mourning. [10]
Evening after evening was this other fire lighted and then put out at once; and a great longing came to him to leave this guarding of the fire, and go to her--"For half a day," he said--"just for half a day! [11]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
Pierre went up to the fire, ate some roast horseflesh, lay down with his back to the fire, and immediately fell asleep. [2]
He was unable to procure the Greek fire, but he constructed a vicious torpedo which would have answered the purpose, but the first one prematurely exploded in his wood-house, blowing it clean away, and setting fire to his house. [5]
If he refused to fire, he would be strung up to the yardarm; if he fired and missed, perhaps other gunners would fire, and once started they might raze the fishing-post. [11]
During his visitation throughout the rambling buildings Obada had looked out for spots that might suit his purpose, and two hours after sunset he had lighted fire after fire with his own hand, in secret and undetected. [10]
The hussars had succeeded in setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was someone to fire at. [2]
They "holler" fire sometimes, though, but I am always too late to see the smoke before the fire is out, if they ever have any. [5]
It was in singular contrast to the snapping fire which had been theirs all the days of his life till now--the snapping fire of action, will and design. [11]

More example sentences with the word fire in them

When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
We come to your house here, light a fire, and sit just in de spot where I am, one hour, two hour, three hour. [11]
Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
I know how you have sacrificed all for me--all but honour--all but honour," he added, a wild fire in his eyes, a trembling seizing him. [11]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
Now why are you asking silly questions about the Fire Brigade? [2]
How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
As I have written you, I have been under fire very little since coming to the staff. [9]
I believe He would put that Chair in the fire, and the bell along with it; and I think He would make the show-woman go away. [5]
Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
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]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
All ranks are wonderfully equalized under the fire of a masked battery. [6]
Bulow is a wonderful conductor, a little man, all nerve and fire, and he seems to inspire every instrument. [4]
But the old woman's struggle between the duty that kept her near the fire and the love that drew her away from it was not of long duration. [10]
Must she die without knowing how much the fire had injured the newly built convent, on whose site she had enjoyed the springtime of love, and how the good Sisters fared? [10]
Big Tom sat with us before the fire and told bear stories. [4]
Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand. [11]
Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe. [9]
The fire travelled with incredible swiftness: they were hastening to meet it. [11]
She had played with fire, from the very spirit of adventure in her, but she had not been burnt. [11]
Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
When a building with dry rot catches fire, Rench, can you put limit to how much of it will burn? [9]
They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
Here he was with a fine appetite: it was like coals of fire heaped on his head by Nature for last night's business at the Cote Dorion. [11]
You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
We grounded the wire of a pocket electrical battery in that powder, we placed a whole magazine of Greek fire on each corner of the roof--blue on one corner, green on another, red on another, and purple on the last--and grounded a wire in each. [5]
O Sweet, we will voyage again To the camp of Love's fire, Nevermore to return! [11]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. [5]
And yet--the praetorians will go through fire and water for you, if you deliver up this man to them as their booty. [10]
He looked concentrated will and power as he stood with his hands clasped behind him, his shoulders thrown back, his eyes alight with fire and determination. [11]
At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
There are people who kindle a fire underneath. [4]
According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
The south winds whistled through the woods, as the waters dashed against the banks, as rapid fire in the pent furnace roars. [5]
That first long whiff was like the indrawn breath of the cold, starved hunter, when, stepping into his house, he sees food, fire, and wife on his hearthstone. [11]
Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. [11]
Were the tears which filled Eva's eyes caused by the smoke that poured from the fire more and more densely into the street, or to disappointment and bitter anguish? [10]
But the fire which burned within had not been extinguished. [10]
Between him and where the sound came from was a fire burning. [11]
St. George's Church, where she was buried, was destroyed by fire in 1727. [4]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
It was sunset when they started, and they had not gone a thousand yards before some of the mutineering ships opened fire on the Ariadne. [11]
The night before, when I had sat with Miss Thorn beside the fire, they went up; this morning her anxious solicitude for the Celebrity had sent them down again. [9]
She remembered that, when her father and others had slept so long after the prairie fire, she had waked them once to give them drink and a little food, and they did not breathe so heavily as he was doing. [11]
Cynthia thought of what the lady had said to her a few hours since, by this very fire, and began to believe she must have dreamed it. [9]
Ah, he thought, what a woman she would be if she were touched by the fire of faith! [4]
War, as it were, was declared between them, and he vowed to himself, with fire in his eyes, that he would not shirk it! [10]
A riotous party were toping and reveling in the beautiful garden of the impluvium round a fire which they had lighted on the velvet turf. [10]
If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
Her recent experiences were the flames of the forge fire of life of which her mother had spoken--and how pitifully she had endured their glow! [10]
Mandeville and I were talking of the unknown people, one rainy night by the fire, while the Mistress was fitfully and interjectionally playing with the piano-keys in an improvising mood. [4]
The weary gangs were gone to rest; a bright fire still blazed in front of the house of the superintendent of the mines, and round it squatted in a circle the overseers and the subalterns of the troops. [10]
Fielding and Dicky were both armed, but Fielding would not fire until he saw that his own crew had joined the rioters on the bank. [11]
Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. [5]
If all was well with Dalice a little fire should be lighted at the house door just at the going down of the sun, and it should be at once put out. [11]
And at night we would gather at the fire around our new emigrants to listen to the stories they had to tell,--familiar stories to all of us. [9]
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]
Was there no way of lighting up in her the sacred fire which burnt in him? [10]
Yes, there it was, half covered by the ruins, but its head was erect in the midst of fire and disaster. [11]
Now her hand was upon the bellows, and the low, white fire seethed hungrily up, and set its teeth upon the iron she held; now it turned the iron about upon the anvil, and the sparks showered about her very softly and strangely. [11]
A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
His only excitement was to trudge ten miles to Dorset and listen to a three hour sermon on everlasting fire and brimstone by a man who was supposed to know. [9]
The officer who was to prepare the fire was there first, and prepared it. [5]
My first thought was to fire at his head; to plant the ball between his eyes: but this is a dangerous experiment. [4]
Our first thought was to build a fire, which would drive back the thick darkness into the woods, and boil some water for our tea. [4]
What the gift was to announce she read on the paper accompanying it, which contained the following simple lines: "The iron rude, when shaped by fire and blows, Delights our eyes as a most beauteous rose. [10]
Ba su, it was the last shot he would ever fire against aught English, here or elsewhere. [11]
The curious thing was that, while still this political matter was hanging fire, he painted with elation. [11]
Just as he was stooping over the fire, as Gordineer did, I sprang upon him, clasping him about the neck, and bringing him to the ground. [11]
At first she was startled, for he was clean-shaven--the fire had burned his beard to the skin. [11]
Though his body was so cold, his throat was on fire. [11]
Bitter before, now was she on fire. [9]
Filion Lacasse's gun was now at disposal, but who would fire it? [11]
An impure corpse was not permitted to defile the pure earth by its decay; nor might it be committed to the fire or water for destruction, as their purity would be equally polluted by such an act. [10]
When the fire was lighted, the effect of the bright light in the cavern and the heavy shadows in the room was Rembrandtish. [4]
Presently the straw was in a blaze, and from this the fire extended to the furniture, to the stairway leading up from the cellar, and was working its way along the entry under the stairs leading up to the apartment where Maurice was lying. [6]
I supposed he was going to set fire to the liquid and swallow it, so I was greatly wrought up and interested. [5]
A scanty fire was glimmering on the strand. [10]
Turning round, she was full in the light of the candles and the shooting flames of the fire. [11]
And the night was dismally cool and windy, now that the fire had gone out. [9]
Outside indeed it was dim and wet, but within it was no less comfortable, for a mighty fire was blazing in the wide chimney-place. [10]
The old dame was crouching beside the hearth in the middle room, turning the metal spit, on which she had put the ducks, over the freshly kindled fire. [10]
Here a fire was crackling on the hearth, refreshments were laid out, and the major in command rose from his book to greet me. [9]
The lower half was closed, the upper open, and the winter sun was shining full into the room, where a bright fire burned. [11]
Then his face was cheerful and bright, and in his eye was the fire of youth. [11]
A tiny fire was burning near, and two sentinels stepped forward as I rode boldly on the entrance. [11]
A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I sat down before it with a comforting sense of relief. [5]
A cheery fire was blazing on the hearth. [5]
A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]

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