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Sentences starting with fires

Fires would not revive some, but Clark himself seized a fainting man by the arms and walked him up and down in the sunlight until his blood ran again. [9]
Fires were visible on all sides. [2]
Fires are not needed in summer. [10]
Fires look very differently at night--and sometimes burn brighter then. [9]
Fires interested me considerably, because I was getting a good deal of an insurance business started, and was also training some horses and building some steam fire-engines, with an eye to a paid fire department by and by. [5]
Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. [2]

Sentences ending with fires

Take the implements with which we kindle our fires. [5]
The sun himself was pleased to hail that last morning of the great council, and beamed with torrid tolerance upon the ceremony of kindling the greatest of the fires. [9]
I think it was most like opals washing about in waves and flashing out their splendid fires. [5]
He would jump up, or throw back his head to shake his long hair off his face, and his fine, large, dark eyes glowed with wrathful fires. [10]
The consuls of those countries who love not England or Claridge Pasha, and the holy men, and the Cadi, all scatter smouldering fires. [11]
She smiled as they dragged her away; and her soul hurried after his to the Camp of the Great Fires. [11]
The trimmers rigged the splinter nettings, got out spare spars and blocks and ropes against those that were sure to be shot away, and rolled up casks of water to put out the fires. [9]
By this time the men had broken into the storehouse, and the open place was dotted with their breakfast fires. [9]
The show in the fire-department was so antiquated, that I was convinced that the people of Munich never intend to have any fires. [4]
Yes, down into the eternal fires! [5]

Short sentences using fires

Yet the fires burned! [9]

Sentences containing fires two or more times

For an instant a tongue of the fires of Vulcan had shot forth, fires that she had suspected. [9]

More example sentences with the word fires in them

Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous. [6]
It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and Columbia the forest fires were raging. [5]
Out of the windows of the Senate House the soldiers threw chairs into the Square for fuel and kindled fires there. [2]
They met many who greeted them cordially, and numbers of Frank's old club friends summoned him to the sacred fires at his earliest opportunity. [11]
There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
The rail fences were somewhat disturbed, and the cinders of extinguished fires showed the use to which they had been applied. [6]
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]
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]
But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. [2]
He said: "Dan used to make a good thing out of the hay wagons in a dry time when there were no fires or inquests. [5]
The fires lit up the sides of the valley and glorified the mountains beyond. [11]
Yet they lit up her face; lit it with a fell light of their own; lit it with vague fires of hell. [5]
He was between two fires, and quite unarmed. [11]
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]
I had to travel hard, and I track him by his fires and other things. [11]
Philippus was indeed too much overburdened to chatter, but his professional advice was good and helped her to endure the fires of this pitiless sky. [10]
I can call to mind no specialized annual day, in any country, whose approach fires the whole land with a conflagration of conversation and preparation and anticipation and jubilation. [5]
He will endeavour to gain a better understanding of what stirs, fires, angers, and divides the theologians. [10]
Nobody knew what to do with it; so it was sold at 15 a ton, to light fires with. [5]
He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
I tossed the tin cup with its chemical fires full in his face, as he made a dash for me. [11]
The hope which threatened to light again the dead fires in the woman's eyes frightened me. [9]
They saw the thousand places where cities could be made, and built their fires on the sites of them, and camped a day, and were gone, leaving them waiting and barren as before. [11]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
Morning and Night they travel with me; my camp is set by the pines, its fires are burning--are burning. [11]
He did not then realize the significance of the burning of Moscow, and looked at the fires with horror. [2]
First he told them of the causes of war, of the thirteen council fires with the English, and in terms that the Indian mind might grasp, and how their old father, the French King, had joined the Big Knives in this righteous fight. [9]
Why does not the thorn-bush light its fires, and destroy the evil-doers with its flames? [10]
This confession, with the sudden glimpse it gave him of the fires within her that would not die down, but burned now more fiercely than ever, sent the blood to his head. [9]
Getting over against the signal fires blazing on Flamborough Head, she wore ship and stood across our bows, the midshipman on the forecastle singing out to her, by the commodore's orders, to lay the enemy by the board. [9]
Over there, where the shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the shouting grew louder and louder. [2]
He asked whether the Russians had not withdrawn, and was told that the enemy's fires were still in the same places. [2]
The wind howled, the rain lashed with fury against the windows, the mob tore through the streets of the town, sacked the wine-shops, built great fires at the corners. [9]
Kneel; and may the power be granted me To cool the fires of this poor tortured brain, And bring it peace and healing. [5]
The fires in the pitch-pans and the torches on the shore sometimes seemed on the point of being extinguished, at others burst with a doubly brilliant blaze through the smoke which obscured them. [10]
Tender as were the manifestations of this love, Cynthia never guessed the fires within, for there was in truth something primeval in the fierceness of his passion. [9]
We came to the fires, and Captain Bowman hurried up to meet him. [9]
The fires of the enemy were dying down, and only here and there Arabs gossiped or drank coffee by the embers. [11]
Scattering money among the crowd, and giving some silver to the lads, Valmond stood looking at the bonfire for a moment, and then, pointing to it dramatically, said: "My friends, my brothers, Frenchmen, we will light larger fires than these. [11]
Those fires were the bulletins of the night, telling that around each of them men were sleeping, or thinking of other scenes, or wondering whether the fight to-morrow would be their last fight, and if so, what then? [11]
It was said that the man's death-grip still held fast to the bars after he was dead; and that in this position the fires wrapped him about and consumed him. [5]
All the stories that can be found in old manuscripts will never prevent the going out of the fires of the legendary Inferno. [6]
Now that the terrible din of the guns had ceased a hush seemed to reign over the town, broken only by the rustle of footsteps, the moaning, the distant cries, and the crackle of fires which seemed widespread everywhere. [2]
They beat the tattoo, called the roll, had supper, and settled down round the fires for the night--some repairing their footgear, some smoking pipes, and some stripping themselves naked to steam the lice out of their shirts. [2]
And as she stood hesitating, gazing at him, a desire to hear more, to hear all of this creed he preached, that fed the fires in her soul, urged her forward. [9]
I was a soldier in the Southern war for two weeks, and when gentlemen get up to speak of the great deeds our army and navy have recently done, why, it goes all through me and fires up the old war spirit. [5]
But it is so, as I said, that I may choose who shall light the fires? [11]
It was done so suddenly that Gering found himself between two fires. [11]
The sombre pines showed up, a wall all round, and in the open space, turreted with fantastic fires, the Indians swayed in and out with weird chanting, their bodies mostly naked, and painted in strange colours. [11]
He answered the shout--with a yell, which seemed to make the hundred fires that danced before his eyes tremble and flicker, as if a gust of wind had stirred them. [12]
The lost, they shall sit by my fires, and the fearful ones shall seek, and the sick shall abide. [11]
Since the first settlement of the place there had been but few fires, and these had had pretty much their own way. [11]
He could not say--the fires of hatred had burned so fiercely, and still burned so fiercely, that he clenched his fists when it came over him that Isaac Worthington was at last in his power. [9]
Mr. Crewe still sat with Mr. Botcher and Mr. Bascom, but he was not a man to pretend after the fires had cooled. [9]
In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke. [2]
Rostov, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. [2]
A volcanic hill rose up on one side, gloomy and stern, but the reflection of the fires reached it, and made its sides quiver--the rock itself seemed trembling. [11]
This "cottage," a roomy, gabled structure, stood on a cliff, at the foot of which roared the wintry Atlantic, while we danced and popped corn before the open fires. [9]
That is, I remember it as pyrotechnic figures which you set up before me, dead and cold, but ready for the match--and now I see them touched off and all ablaze with blinding fires. [5]
Since it would redeem the accursed person from the fires of purgatory, she, too, was absolved from the vow which drew her thither. [10]
The wedding took place on Whitsunday, and she owed this great happiness entirely to the dispensation which had released the dead man's soul from the fires of purgatory and induced him to show his thankfulness. [10]
By now the phosphorus light diminished a little, but still I was a villainous picture, for in one hand I held a small cup from which suddenly sprang red and blue fires. [11]
It is the Pathfinder's turn now; he steps out before the ladies, takes aim, and fires. [5]
She had kindled other fires at her side. [9]
His eyes were only two dark fires in a face that was as near to tragic pain crystallized as any the world has seen. [11]
You would think one engine would be sufficient, but some great cities have a hundred; they keep men hired, and pay them by the month to do nothing but put out fires. [5]
She looked back once towards the heights of Quebec and saw the fires of many homes--they scorched her eyes. [11]
When they perform on the stage of a theater, in the blaze of colored fires, it must be a fine and fascinating spectacle. [5]
Here's Ingolby back on the locomotive, running the good old train of Progress, and here's Ingolby's fire-brigade, which cost Lebanon twenty thousand dollars and himself five thousand, going to put out the fires of hate consuming two loving hamulets. [11]
The minutes drift on and on and on, with not a sound but the ticking of the clock; at last the sun fires a sudden sheaf of rays into the ghostly tree and turns it into a white splendor of glittering diamonds. [5]
They were standing off about a mile from the island, and could see lighted fires and groups of people upon the shore, when suddenly a gale came out from the southwest, the wind having again shifted. [11]
Over the decline of the year flickered the ruined fires of energy. [11]
The tawny fires of the sunset were dying down behind us, the mist stealing, ghostlike, into the valleys below; in the sky a little moon curled like a freshly cut silver shaving, that presently turned to gold, the white star above it to fire. [9]
The troubled fires of the Indians had died to embers long before the candles were snuffed in the garrison house and the music ceased. [9]
The very fires of the hereafter could get up nothing more than a fitful glimmer in it. [5]
By that salutation of the east, given in the far north, Lawless knew that he had met one who had lighted fires where men are many and close to the mile as holes in a sieve. [11]
Those little groups of men sleeping around their fires were like a family, where men grow to serve each other as brother serves brother, knowing each other's foibles, but preserving each other's honour for the family's pride, risking life to save each other. [11]
The scorching revelation of life's injustice lighted within her the fires of anarchy and revenge. [9]
He had not noticed that her eyes were like hungry fires, eating up her face--eating away its roundness, and leaving a pathetic beauty behind. [11]
The stokers did not sit down in idleness, but moved briskly about, punching up the fires with long poles, and now and then adding fuel. [5]
But he hath not escaped the fires! [5]
The charcoal-burner had never lighted such bright fires, never tasted such delicious meat and spicy wine, as during that period of his life, while vengeance had a still sweeter savor than all the rest. [10]
Here we have neither snow nor cold weather; fires are never lighted, and yet summer clothes are never worn--you wear spring clothing the year round. [5]
Its coming on most frequently at the season when the brush fires which are consuming the dead branches, and withered leaves, and all the refuse of vegetation are sending up their smoke is suggestive. [6]
Even now the moisture of heaven seemed to avoid this rainless region and in all directions fires were burning, which the soldiers surrounded in double rows, like a living shield, to keep the storm from scattering the fuel. [10]
No token of misfortune came out of this peaceful encampment, no omen of disaster crossed the long lane of drowsy fires and huge amorous shadows. [11]
The land was mine: its lonely pride, Its distant deep desires; And I abode, as hunters bide, With joy beside its fires. [11]
She had seen men brought in from fighting prairie fires for three days without sleep; had watched them drop on their beds, and lie like logs for thirty-six hours. [11]
By proper scout lookouts, and beacons of smoke by day and fires by night you can always have timely notice of the enemy's approach. [7]
Otherwise we should long ago have been in the mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad quarter of an hour between two fires. [2]
Arrived at the little thatched lookout house, we rested our elbows on the railing in front and looked abroad over the wide crater and down over the sheer precipice at the seething fires beneath us. [5]
Which is, that lightning, kept to itself, is quiescent; it is the assaulting contact of the thunderbolt that releases it from captivity, ignites its awful fires, and so produces an instantaneous combustion and explosion which spread disaster and desolation far and wide in the earth. [5]
The figures were lighted up by the fires which burned on two altars of ivory and gold. [10]
Outside in the light of the dying fires, under the glittering stars, in the shade of the trees, groups of Romanys were singing the Romany wedding melody, called "The Song of the Sealing. [11]
There was no life as yet in all the horizon, no fires, no animals stirring, no early workmen, no anxious harvesters. [11]
With regard to legal matters, immediately after the fires he gave orders to find and execute the incendiaries. [2]

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