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Sentences starting with flames

Flames have burst out apparently under the fortress at the Thiergartenthor. [10]
Flames go round her, and she burns not her robe--not at all. [11]

Sentences ending with flames

He soon reappeared with Nebsecht in his arms, whose robe was already scorched by the flames. [10]
After an hour's walk my tormentors halted before the mouth of an oven,--a furnace heated seven times, and now roaring with flames. [4]
He had been unable to attend the auto-da-fe at which the heretics were committed to the flames. [10]
They must first try to save Myrtilus's work and, when that was accomplished, preserve his also from destruction by the flames. [10]
Such was Jethro's torment that morning as he saw her drive away, the minister in the place where he should have been, at her side, and he, Jethro Bass, as helpless as though he had indeed been in the pit among the flames. [9]
The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames. [10]
Your treasures were to be committed to the flames. [10]
Tetzel had come to Augsburg about a year after her husband's death, and, as she knew how many sins he had committed, she put her hand into her purse to free him from the flames. [10]
It is as though the old pyramids and the whole land of Egypt were in flames. [10]
Why does not the thorn-bush light its fires, and destroy the evil-doers with its flames? [10]

Short sentences using flames

Something cracked in the flames. [2]
It flames with frenzy! [5]
Was Memphis in flames? [10]

Sentences containing flames two or more times

There could be no lack of flames and carnage; but that was part of his trade, as shavings belong to flames, hammer-strokes to smiths. [10]

More example sentences with the word flames in them

Can't you get your friends to unite with you in committing those odious instruments of debauchery to the flames in which you have consumed your own? [6]
Had hell indeed yawned, and were the flames soaring up to the sky through the riven shell of the earth? [10]
Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
Their malicious faces were tinged by the red glow of the flames, which rose with their spiteful laughter towards heaven, as if demanding vengeance. [10]
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]
However, the Judge went periodically to his friend's for a quiet Sunday dinner (so called in derision by St. Louisans), on which occasions Virginia sat at the end of the table and endeavored to pour water on the flames when they flared up too fiercely. [9]
She perceived how waterfall after waterfall was quenching the flames which burned in Don John's honest soul for the supposed welfare of the nation intrusted to him. [10]
The sick man was going to be swallowed up in the flames before it could possibly arrive. [6]
Turning round, she was full in the light of the candles and the shooting flames of the fire. [11]
And now Pentaur was distinctly visible against a background of flaring light, for some fire-brands had fallen on the dry palm-thatch of the hovel behind him, and roaring flames rose up to the dark heavens. [10]
One need not wait to see the smoke coming through the roof of a house and the flames breaking out of the windows to know that the building is on fire. [6]
She and her virgins ran to these flames, while Horus led the youths to battle against Typhon on the opposite shore. [10]
They were wise, very wise; fishes and flames are dumb and cannot cry to heaven. [10]
The flames leapt up into the air and all the Persians fell on their knees and hid their faces, in the belief that the fire was now ascending to their great god and father. [10]
The flames flared up again, lighting the animated, delighted, exhausted faces of the spectators. [2]
You tilt the tube skyward and bring planets and comets and corona flames a hundred and fifty thousand miles high into the field. [5]
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]
All I intended to say was, that we need not wait for hearts to break out in flames to know that they are full of combustibles and that a spark has got among them. [6]
Nor ought I to repeat it now, though I did not need the flames to send the blood tingling through my body. [9]
Had I desired to feast my eyes on the castle in flames, it would, perhaps, now lie in ashes. [10]
For a long time Pauline sat with hands clasped in her lap, her gaze on the tossing flames, in her heart and mind a new feeling of strength and purpose. [11]
I'm quite sure the world thinks I'm one of your spent flames, and there never was any fire, not so big as the point of a needle, was there? [11]
Others again, opening the white-hot furnace-doors, cast fuel on the flames, which came rushing and roaring forth to meet it, and licked it up like oil. [12]
The fingers of the two men met in the flicker of flames, a sort of bond by fire, and the stranger raised the flask. [11]
We have weighed the planets and analyzed the flames of the--sun and stars. [6]
The experiences of the past few days had swept through the peace of her young soul like a tempest, overthrowing firmly built structures and fanning glimmering sparks to flames. [10]
Rameses hurried to the north wing, where Bent-Anat had her apartments; he found her safe indeed, but wringing her hands, for her young favorite Uarda had disappeared in the flames after she had roused her and saved her with her father's assistance. [10]
The boiler in the Kubisch cloth factory had burst, a part of the huge building near it was in flames, and a large portion of the walls had fallen. [10]
Moths burned in the gas flames, and June bugs hummed in at the high windows and tilted against the walls. [9]
At that moment the flames flared up and showed his young master's pale worn face. [2]
How much had the flames consumed that never could be replaced! [10]
Bob looked into the flames and waited, and Cynthia stood in the entry fighting this second great battle which had come upon her while her forces were still spent with that other one. [9]
This circumstance favored the efforts of the citizens trying to extinguish the fire, but Balbilla ascribed it to the foresight of her clever friend when the flames subsided in souse places and in others were altogether extinguished. [10]
The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]
The smoke of the burning mountain was wrapping itself around him; he was choking with its dense fumes; he heard the flames roaring around him, he felt the hot lava beneath his feet, he uttered a faint cry, and awoke. [6]
Tramp--the man with the air of a young Alexander, with a voice like the low notes of the guitar thrown to the flames! [11]
It was not that they were in themselves supernaturally bright,--but there was the sad fire in them that flames up from the soul of one who looks on the beauty of woman without hope, but, alas! [6]
It was said that the royal iron foundry was in flames. [10]
Like the flames that rise heavenward my song shall aspire! [6]
Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? [6]
Once she saw that he had a building completely torn down which divided a burning granary from some other storehouses that had been spared, and she understood the object of this order; it cut off the progress of the flames. [10]
She now knew that all her nobler feelings spoke more loudly in favour of the quiet man who had borne her out of the flames. [10]
Finally, she had taken the waste-basket and emptied it into the flames. [11]
The lightning had struck only the convent barn; the cow stable, when we arrived, was still safe, but the flames soon reached it also. [10]
True, resentment did stir within me as it does in every woman whose lover scorns her; but the misfortune that befell you speedily transformed resentment into compassion, and fanned the old flames anew. [10]
Smoking flames were still rising from the pitch pans and blazing torches, and long rows of lanterns also illumined the broad space. [10]
He would no sooner get an inkling of what his opening sentence was to be than the flames of his anger would rise and sweep it away. [9]
While the flames soared heavenward, we enthusiastically sang patriotic songs. [10]
The water, usually so placid, rose in high waves, and the beacon on the lighthouse of Sastratus sent the rent abundance of its flames with hostile impetuosity towards the city. [10]
One of its sides had fallen in, another was on fire, and bright flames issued from the openings of the windows and from under the roof. [2]
But for that, she believed that Juliane's soul would still be burning in the flames of purgatory. [10]
The monks had set fire to the temple of Isis and the flames had been driven by the northwest wind down into the ship-yard, where they had found ample food in the enormous timber stacks and the skeletons of ships. [10]
No flames were seen, but columns of smoke rose on all sides, and all Moscow as far as Pierre could see was one vast charred ruin. [2]
But young Tom seemed to be the only being capable of serenity amongst the flames that played around him. [9]
That is to say, she was the moon, and all the constellations were following her about, their hearts in flames for love of her, but she would not halt, she would not listen, for 'twas thought she loved another. [5]
She longed to say something to him, but she could not speak; and she looked on quite unmoved as the statue of the god and the hall in which it stood were wrapt in flames. [10]
At last he sat down, and propping his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, stared alternately, now into vacancy, and anon into the flames. [10]
He had to run through the flames to get to the lake shore, and then we stood helpless and watched the devastation. [5]
The sparks that rose from the midst of the flames glittered as they swept westward; for the wind now came more from the east. [10]
On the Lei rose flames, the Fairy stood above, at that time, and beckoned with her right hand clearly and urgently to the infatuated Knight, while with a staff in her left hand she called the waves to her service. [5]
A little white room, unevenly panelled, the silver candlesticks and yellow flames fantastically reflected in the mirrors between the deep windows, and the moths and June-bugs tilting at the lights. [9]
Who forged in roaring flames the ponderous stone, And shaped the moulded metal to his need? [6]
But when I realize who I am, I see before me a blind man who is poorer than a beggar, because the scorching flames melted even the gold which was to help him pay his debts. [10]
Her boat had reached Pelusium just as the flames were breaking out in the palace; the broad flare of light and the cries from the various vessels in the harbor brought her on deck. [10]
After this he raised his hands to heaven, and, while the other priests continually fed the flames into a wilder blaze by casting in fresh butter, sang a long prayer out of the sacred books. [10]
A rich greenish radiance sprang into the sky from behind the mountain, and in this same airy shreds and ribbons of vapor floated about, and being flushed with that strange tint, went waving to and fro like pale green flames. [5]
They could n't quite make up their minds to burn him, so they only hung him in a hogshead painted all over with flames! [6]
In the northern provinces the Spanish power was only a shadow, but in the southern ones also hatred of the Spaniards was already bursting into flames, and Requesens was too weak to extinguish them. [10]
Wrath against himself preyed upon him, and when he thrust a spear into the flames, scattering the embers and sending a shower of bright sparks upward, it was rage at his own wavering will that guided his hand. [10]
She was really pouring fuel on the flames. [9]
It was Al'mah's portrait in the costume she had worn over three years ago, the night when Rudyard Byng had rescued her from the flames. [11]
Thither the larger portion of those who could combat the flames and rescue the inhabitants were at once directed; and here, as at the palace, he acted on the principle of sacrificing whatever could not be saved entire. [10]
Archibius had first perceived, by the flames of the Pharos, the red glimmer which announced the approach of the royal galley. [10]
They have been peopled in earlier years with ghastly spectres of avenging fiends, moving in a sleepless world of devouring flames and smothering exhalations; where nothing lives but the sinner, the fiends, and the reptiles who help to make life an unending torture. [6]
Fifteen minutes had passed, and the old house-keeper's face still glowed--no longer from anger, but because, full of zeal, she now moulded cakes before the bright flames on the hearth, now basted the roast on the spit with its own juices. [10]
He looked round, particularly at the wing not yet gained by the flames, and exclaimed in a loud voice: "The fire is intentional! [10]
She tore the paper into strips and threw it into the flames and opened the window to the cool air of the autumn morning. [9]
Then he went out over the breast- board with his clothing in flames, and was the last person to get ashore. [5]
Thy martyrs in other ages were cast into the flames, but no fire could touch their immortal and indestructible faith. [6]
The bed was opposite the fire, and, as she lay there--she did not take off her clothes, she knew not why-she could see the flames. [11]
That will pour oil on the flames, and they must blaze up high; I'd stake both my hands on it, much as I need them. [10]
Was I one of those who he had decreed before I was born must suffer the tortures of the flames of hell? [9]
The reddish-yellow rays of their broad flames were darkened by the canopy, and scarcely revealed the invalid's face. [10]
Then, suddenly, out of the heart of the flames an eagle rose. [10]
Banging and slamming of shutters; smashing of windows and the ringing clash of falling glass; clatter of flying feet along the halls; shrieks, supplications, dumb moanings of despair, within, hoarse shouts of command outside; cracklings and mappings, and the windy roar of victorious flames! [5]
But all hope of saving Maurice was fast giving way, so rapid was the progress of the flames, so thick the cloud of smoke that filled the house and poured from the windows. [6]
If the Italian novels with which she was familiar did not lie, not only jealousy, but apparent indifference on the part of the beloved object, fanned the heart of man to burst into fresh flames. [10]
As she did not smell any sulphur fumes nor see any dancing flames when she peeped out from under her half-closed lids, she gathered sufficient courage to look about her. [10]
But we did not slacken our speed, and gradually the leaping flames grew larger and redder until we were upon them. [9]
For he saw no hope of relief: the smoke was drifting in clouds into the room; the flames were very near; if he was not reached and rescued immediately it was all over with him. [6]
Now the three near the little man began to cut themselves with steel and knives, and one set fire to his jibbeh and began to chew the flames. [11]
Ghostly lights or miracle of Nature, these fitful flames had come and gone at times these many years, and now again the wonder of the unearthly radiance held their eyes. [11]
On this a mighty fire had been kindled, from which flames and sweet odors rose towards heaven. [10]
Then came the match, and the flames made ashes of all those things which once he called his own. [11]
On reaching the Marienthurm she learned that only a barn and a cow stable had b@en destroyed by the flames. [10]
Her grandmother is lying there; she was half choked by the flames, but she will soon come to herself--and I have room for both. [10]
This iron no longer needed bending; but how fiercely the flames of suffering which melted her obstinate nature must have burned! [10]
The crowd gathered like magic in the wide street before the house--the one wide street in Manitou--from the roof and upper windows of which flames were bursting. [11]
And when at length the brush crackled and the flames caught the logs, three of the mightiest chiefs arose. [9]

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