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Sentences starting with flame

Flame is an ethereal sprite, and the spice of danger in it gives zest to the care of the hearth-fire. [4]
Flame and fire are falling from the skies! [10]

Sentences ending with flame

His beard was white, his face was friendly, almost benevolent, but his eyes had a light caught from no celestial flame. [11]
The waxing moon was mirrored in the almost unruffled surface and where a ripple curled it the tiny crest glittered like white flame. [10]
The exaltation jars upon me; not because of the death of the men, for they deserved that, but because it is death eternal, in white-hot fire and flame. [5]
Grant us thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. [6]
One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
In five minutes the whole chancel was burning, and the sleeping man waked in the midst of smoke and flame. [11]
Stepping jerkily to the fireplace he thrust it into the flame. [11]
It was life that burned like flame. [11]
Mark how the tender-hearted mothers read The messages of love between the lines Of the same page that loads the bitter tongue Of him who deals in terror as his trade With threatening words of wrath that scorch like flame! [6]
But, as the sun shot a burning line across the water, a new salt breeze sprang up and fanned a hope into flame. [9]

Short sentences using flame

And the flame responded. [9]
Strontian flame to be kindled.--Curtain. [6]

Sentences containing flame two or more times

The rest of the page was resolved into a filmy floating substance, no more tangible than the ashy skeleton on which writing still lives when the paper itself has been eaten by flame, and the flame swallowed by the air. [11]
Throughout the long night he had known, for a certainty, that this woman was a vital part of him, flame of his flame. [9]
The lambkin caught fire and just as the flame had begun to burn the wooden skeleton of the toy a draught from the window blew the flame towards the other little sheep and in a minute they were all burned to ashes. [10]

More example sentences with the word flame in them

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]
Also, do everything you can to make your former flame unhappy. [5]
The day passed, yet the embers blazed not into the flame of open mutiny. [9]
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]
If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [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]
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke. [2]
The smoking flax which had been a worry to my eyes burst into flame, and I lighted the taper at it which has since guided all my footsteps. [6]
The Vicomte's feelings were by no means hidden processes to Honora, and it was as though she could lift the lid of the furnace at any time and behold the growth of the flame which she had lighted. [9]
But the illusion was momentary, and my eyes speedily recovered from the shock of the bright flame and snowy drapery to see that the figure was a breathing one. [6]
The flame now was in her eyes, and she put out both her hands to stop him as he turned to go; but his face was passionless. [11]
This same condition was equally favorable for the operations of any professional experimenter who would use the flame of religious excitement to light the torch of an earthly passion. [6]
No, his effort was a stream of fire, that kindled his soul into a flame of admiration, and carried his senses away captive. [5]
She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
This unaccustomed sight turned all eyes toward the mountain; and as they looked, a little tongue of rich golden flame was seen waving and quivering in the heart of the midnight, away up on the extreme summit! [5]
Then we could turn from this scene to the Lake, and see every branch, and leaf, and cataract of flame upon its bank perfectly reflected as in a gleaming, fiery mirror. [5]
The flame rolling towards them was not brighter or hotter. [11]
For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
A hurried question to the Cure from Charley, a key handed over, a nod from Jo, and before the Cure could prevent them the two men had rushed through the smoke and flame into the vestry, Portugais holding Charley's hand. [11]
It was wonderful to see with what fierce speed the tall sheet of flame traveled! [5]
She was startled to see what an effect her proposal had produced, for Euthymia was not only blushing, but there was a flame in her eyes which she had hardly ever seen before. [6]
The letter is to Mr. George Iles, author of Flame, Electricity, and the Camera, and many other useful works. [5]
It never occurred to him that these still waters ran deep, that to awaken this seemingly glacial nature, to kindle a fire on this altar, would be to secure unto his life's end a steady, enduring flame of devotion. [11]
Howbeit, at that time the gang were about to light a fire to make their supper, and whereas it would not burn by reason of the wet, they had taken the dry paper and used it to make the feeble flame blaze up. [10]
When we are thoughtless of our words, we do not reckon with that spark in little bosoms that may burst into flame and burn us. [9]
It was as though there was a golden fire behind vast hills of mauve and pink, purple and saffron; but the glow was so soft as to suggest a flame which did not burn; which only shed radiance, colour and an ethereal mist. [11]
It still was there when they said to him suddenly that the wind had changed, and that the flame and sparks were now blowing toward the saw-mill. [11]
Against the mountainside there seemed to hang one bunch of flame like a star, large, red, and weird. [11]
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]
Who return to the world; Who flame at the breath Of the Mockers of Death. [11]
One flame of the three-branched lamp had flickered into extinction and the wick of another was beginning to waste. [10]
The flame touched the sticks at last, took gradual hold upon them--hesitated--took a stronger hold --hesitated again--held its breath five heart-breaking seconds, then gave a sort of human gasp and went out. [5]
Night fell to the music of the paddles, to the scent of the officers' cigars, to the blood-red vomit of the tall stacks and the smoky flame of the torches. [9]
He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire. [5]
Theocritus is feeding the flame, for he needs it to destroy the prefect. [10]
They would recognize the flame quality in her. [8]
Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator? [10]
He could see the flame in her cheek. [11]
I could see the flame grow inch by inch, fed by the Intendant and Doltaire, whose hateful final move I was yet to see. [11]
At last, as the flame flashed up in the chimney, she came over to her friend, and said: "Carterette, I am going to the Dean's. [11]
They hung over the fire while the forest cracked round them, and the flame smarted with the flying snow. [11]
The face shone, the eyes burned, and the piquancy of the contrast between the soft illuminating whiteness of the skin and the flame in the eyes had fascinated many more than Ingolby. [11]
His voice was the effortless deep bass of a church organ, and would disturb the tranquility of a gas flame fifty yards away. [5]
I agree with The Dictator that poetry is little more than the ashes of passion; still it may show that the flame has had its sweep where you find it, unless, indeed, it is shoveled in from another man's fireplace. [6]
He could hear the crackle of fire as the flame crept along from one partition to another. [6]
Then she lit the candle tremblingly, watched the flame gather strength, and opened out the will. [11]
It is fortunate that the flame of my anger dies out so quickly. [10]
It is asserted that the fault was quite as much on our side as on the other; that our agitators and abolishers kindled the flame for which the combustibles were all ready on the other side of the border. [6]
The slight wind that blew spread the topmost crest of flame into strands of ruddy hair, and, looking at it, Jen saw herself rocked to and fro by tumultuous emotions, yet fuller of strength and larger of life than ever she had been. [11]
But he stood tall and straight, his wide shoulders flung back, with the muscles of his bound arms rippling and a blue flame of defiance in the gaze he bent on Tull. [13]
It was the swift amalgamation of two kindred natures in the flame of a perfect sincerity, for even with the dramatic element so strongly developed in him, the Englishman was downright and true. [11]
And she was swept, as it were, by a scarlet flame that deprived her for the moment of speech. [9]
How had he succeeded, in this fierce gale, in kindling the torch so soon into a powerful flame? [10]
He loved to stand up before a dazed world, and pour forth flame and smoke and lava and pumice-stone into the skies, and work his subterranean thunders, and shake himself with earthquakes, and stench himself with sulphur fumes. [5]
There is a spirit in the Palace and beyond which is blowing fast to a great flame. [11]
Some of the sparks do not go out: we see them flaming in the sky when the flame of the fire has died down. [4]
A little separation sometimes will fan it into a flame. [4]
We like the smell of this aromatic forest timber, and its clear flame. [4]
It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob. [5]
By day the slender little flame of honourable betrothed love flickers for him; by night it blazes more brightly for yonder Swiss scoundrel. [10]
Very pleasant and sisterly always she was with him; but she never looked as if she might mean more than she said, and cherished a little spark of sensibility which might be fanned into the flame of love. [6]
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon's flank, and Tom's rifle spat a rod of flame. [9]
What a jolly sight is this fireplace when the pots and kettles in a row are all boiling and bubbling over the flame, and a roasting spit is turning in front! [4]
They are soft, sensuous, lovely--they are exquisite refined, effeminate, but we have seen no sunsets here yet like the gorgeous conflagrations that flame in the track of the sinking sun in our high northern latitudes. [5]
Who found the seeds of fire and made them shoot, Fed by his breath, in buds and flowers of flame? [6]
Virginia longed to see the yellow flame creep along the wet, gray clouds. [9]
If she could rule this gun-man, as Venters had called him, if she could even keep him from shedding blood, what strategy to play his flame and his presence against the game of oppression her churchmen were waging against her? [13]
The sky was red with flame, and the water that bore it there had been tinged with the sullen light as it flowed along. [12]
The coals are raked open, the split sticks are piled up in openwork criss-crossing, as high as the crane; and when the flame catches hold and roars up through the interstices, it is like an out-of-door bonfire. [4]
More wood was put on, and the flame danced in a hundred fantastic shapes. [4]
A glance, a pressure of the hand, even the light touch of a garment, and the flame blazes, where such inflammable material lies ready. [10]
When he had prepared and lighted the lamp for her he saw her again, and was startled at the beauty of the face that the trembling flame revealed. [10]
The martial notes pealed out, the troops answered with a yell, and down they came against that formidable work, whose outlines were lost in its own cannon-smoke, and whose sides were spouting flame and thunder. [5]
Even now political passion is almost as ready to flame forth, either in ardent affection or enthusiastic hatred, as if two centuries and a half had not elapsed since his death. [6]
Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [6]
It helps out our age of plush with a flame of color. [4]
There is no other wood flame so rich, and it leaps up in a joyous, spiritual way, as if glad to burn for the sake of burning. [4]
There was no other light in the room, and on the faces of the two, still and cold, the flame played idly. [11]
One holy light, one heavenly flame. [6]
But all at once she raised it to her lips, and then with a grave, firm look, held it in the flame and saw it pass in smoke. [11]
At last the old man rose to go and reduce the volume of flame for the night; but Jen stopped him. [11]
She glanced out of the window and saw that her father and Pierre had gone to lessen the volume of gas which was feeding the flame. [11]
When the flame of the sulphur splinters kindled by the tinder burned up, first blue and then red, Shcherbinin lit the tallow candle, from the candlestick of which the cockroaches that had been gnawing it were running away, and looked at the messenger. [2]
The two sparks of light came forward until they grew to circles of flame, and all at once lifted themselves up as if in angry surprise. [6]
Occasionally curly tongues of flame rose from under the roofs of the houses. [2]
In this paralysis of fear she awoke, staring with wide eyes at the flickering flame of the lamp, to a world filled with excruciating sound--the siren of the Chippering Mill! [9]
What a cry of eager voices, what a group of cheeks in flame, When the wondrous boa was opened that had come from over seas, With its smell of mastic-varnish and its flash of ivory keys! [6]
I can see now the heavy stone pillars of its portico vignetted in a flush of tenderest green, the tulips just beginning to flame forth their Easter colours in the well-kept beds, the stately, well-groomed evergreens, the vivid lawns, the clipped hedges. [9]
Where shall it next flame at the head of the long procession? [6]
Elise did not move, but stood looking at him, her eyes all flame, her cheeks going a little pale, and flushing again. [11]
I recalled my morning's visit to Whittier at Oak Knoll, in Danvers, a little more than a year ago, when he led me to one of his favorites, an aspiring evergreen which shot up like a flame. [6]
This pleasing picture might perhaps leave some impression on the soul of the young criminal, in whom a preference for good could still, though rarely, be fanned to a flame. [10]
At last a mercifully swift tide of flame burst upward, and none saw that face any more nor that form, and the voice was still. [5]
He had not meant to speak at the meeting, but the last words of the speaker decided him; he was in a flame of indignation. [11]
Sometimes the fire may smoulder and seem as if it were going out, or were quite extinguished, and again it will find some new material to seize upon, and flame up as fiercely as ever. [6]
The Sieur de Mauprat's fingers clasped and unclasped on the top of his cane, little explosions of breath came from his compressed lips, his eyebrows beetled over till the eyes themselves seemed like two glints of flame. [11]
To her excellent master, at least, the Elixir of Truth proved fatal all too soon; the intense excitement of that night had shaken him so cruelly that before the day dawned the feeble flame of his life had flickered out. [10]
There were, however, marvels to stir her, strange landscapes, cities, seas, and ships,--once a fire in the forest of a western reserve with gigantic tongues of orange flame leaping from tree to tree. [9]
And yet how many are there who could not bear the fire--who would cry out at the flame. [9]
He could not make sense, though he joined words he gave me Phiz, styx, wrong, buck, flame, quiz. [6]

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