21 Metaphors for burning

Roberts however, reminded them of the great danger to which this would inevitably expose them; that there was a thick wood at the back of the town, where the inhabitants could hide themselves, and that, when their all was at stake, they would make a bolder resistance: and that the burning or destroying of a few houses, would be a small return for their labor, and the loss that they might sustain.

The man who while smoking a cigar burns his finger is a man of few words and quick of action.

"The face of the patron is black because of it, and a little devil-flame burns in the eyes of the señorita because for love of her men would fight(Such is the way of women, to joy in those things which should give them, fear!)and the señora's face is sagged with worry, and Señor Jackah, there is the fighting look in those eyes!

And not a breeze came, east or west, And burning was the sky, And stifling was each breath we drew Of the air so hot and dry.

When the coal burns, the chief ultimate products of its combustion are carbonic acid, water, and ammoniacal products, which escape up the chimney; and a greater or less amount of residual earthy salts, which take the form of ash.

Burning would be too easy a death for Donnegan.

This little burn is the North Tyne, the beginnings of that stream which, deep, dark, and swift at its mouth, bears the mighty battleships there built to carry the war-flags of the nations round the world.

Judge Dolan agreed with Mike Flynn that the burning of the jail was a trivial matter requiring no official attention.

The burning of the Philadelphia and the bombardment of Tripoli are much too fine a subject for rhetorical pyrotechnics to have escaped lecturers and orators of the Fourth-of-July school.

The burning or flame of that love, which is zeal, is a spiritual burning or flame, arising from an infestation and assault of the love.

KELP, an alkaline substance derived from the ashes of certain sea-weeds, yielding iodine, soda, potass, and certain oils; kelp-burning was formerly a valuable industry in Orkney and the Hebrides.

The mountain burning was Khumbaba's halls We fired, when all his soldiers from the walls Had fled;the ni-takh-garri,on that morn, Of such deceptive dreams, I would thee warn!"

EXERCISE - Slovenliness I Give moderate or accurate utterance to the following ideas: The burning of the hen-coop was a mighty conflagration.

But they had something to eat, no authority or ability to affect any sort of change, and unfailing tobacco, the burning of which was an occupation.

I never thought me myself by myself; my very existence was the consciousness of this absolute existence in and through and around me: it made my heart burn, and the burning of my heart was my lifeand the burning was the presence of the Absolute.

The burning of the hut would be certain death.

Luke E. Lawless, Judge of the Circuit Court of Missouri, at a session of that Court in the city of St. Louis, some months after the burning of this man, decided officially that since the burning of McIntosh was the act, either directly or by countenance of a majority of the citizens, it is 'a case which transcends the jurisdiction,' of the Grand Jury!

I never thought me myself by myself; my very existence was the consciousness of this absolute existence in and through and around me: it made my heart burn, and the burning of my heart was my lifeand the burning was the presence of the Absolute.

So, too, in Oldenburg, "the burning of things that are bewitched or that have been received from witches is another way of breaking the spell.

The thought of him was like a touch of fire to Paul Colbert, so burning was the contempt which he felt for this conceited dullard whose blundering had nearly been his own death.

Manga Colorada, absorbed by a thirst which was more burning than revenge, did not at first see the slayer of his boy, and when he did could not move toward him because of fevered mustangs, who would not budge from their drinking, or who were staggering blind with hunger.

21 Metaphors for  burning