39 collocations for flaming

And the invincible vague hope of youth, and the irrepressible consciousness of power, were almost ready to flame up afresh, contrary to all reason, and irradiate her starless soul.

The trees were flaming scarlet and saffron as I rode west through the forests to his house on the South Fork River.

The earlier work, "The Seven Lamps,"the Lamp of Sacrifice, of Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, Obedience,looks upon architecture "as the revealing medium or lamp through which flame a people's passions,the embodiment of their polity, life, history, and religious faith in temple and palace, mart and home."

The slave, however abject and crushed, is an intelligent being: he has a will, and that will cannot be annihilated, it will show itself; if for a moment it is smothered, like pent up fires when vent is found, it flames the fiercer.

After a brief hesitation a delicate young fellowalmost a boyfollowed this man, his face flaming red with shame.

' Mary flamed crimson.

Though Love hath brought my lady's heart to love, My faithful love with like love to requite; This doth not quench, but rather cause to flame The creeping fire which, spreading in my breast With raging heat, grants me no time of rest.

The peasant maiden sings and spins, Before her crackling, flaming bright The pine chips,friend of Winter night.

High above the lights of the little town, which seemed but a continuation of the stars, flamed the Way-Farer's Cross on the spire of St. Joseph's; huge bonfires cast a flickering crimson glow upon the frosted pinnacles of ice, and rockets rose and fell like sparkling jewels in the clear sky.

Her eyes still flamed defiance, but back of it he read fear, a horrified and paralyzing terror.

A smart young married clerk in the oil business falls off the top of a bus on to his head and, from a confirmed materialist, becomes something not unlike a confirmed lunatic, with a faculty for seeing flaming emanations which enable him to place the owners of them in the true scale of human and spiritual values.

For, lithe and swift, Sir Fidelis had sprung to earth and had seized the great roan's bridle, and checking him in his stride, faced Beltane with cheeks suffused and flaming eyes.

His verdant files Of ordered trees should here inglorious range, Instead of squadrons flaming o'er the field, And long embattled hosts.

The window looked out upon the sunny vines, whose leaves were now flaming gold or ruddy brown; the blue river shone in the hollow below, and through the open door there came the tinkling of bells from the rocky wastes where the small long-tailed sheep were moving slowly homeward, nibbling the stunted herbage as they went.

Ah! come, ere August flames its heart away, Ere, like a golden widow, autumn goes Across the woodlands, sad with thoughts of May, An aster in her bosom for a rose.

Afterward, when sailors mutinied and abandoned their ships or killed their officers to be able to remain in Tahiti and its sister islands, there grew up in England a literature of wanderers, runagates, and beach-combers, of darkish women who knew no reserve or modesty, of treasure-trove, of wrecks and desperate deeds, piracy and blackbirding, which made flame the imagination of the youth of seventy years ago.

" "Then tell me why I didn't play on the football eleven?" flamed up Midshipman Jetson.

Long nights, long nights and the whisperings of new ones, Flame the line of the pathway down to the sea With the halo of new dreams and the hallow of old ones, And they bring magic light to my love reverie And a lover's regret.

Just below the elbow flamed the red and purple marks left by Jeff's fingers.

Old sap, or night-fallen dew, has damped the fuel; In vain my breath would flame provoke; Yet seeat every poor attempt's renewal To Thee ascends the smoke.

And here to him came love, and love's dear loss; Here honors came, the deep applause of men Touched to the heart by some swift-wingèd word That from his own full heart took eager flight Some strain of piercing sweetness or rebuke, For underneath his gentle nature flamed A noble scorn for all ignoble deed, Himself a bondman till all men were free.

A wonder to look at on earth, flaming all sides and corners with metal and clasps and binding, and three flaps to hold it down, not to speak of a lock.

There flamed before his eyes the terrible spectacle which he had witnessed a few hours beforethe holocaust of fire and smoke and thunder that had disrupted a mountain, a chaos of writhing, twisting fury, and in that moment his heart seemed to cease its beating.

The troops had heard of the advancing reinforcements, and were drooping again; when, suddenly, the cannon of the Bastille, those Spanish cannon; flamed out their powerful succor, the royal army halted and retreated, and the day was won.

Blazing gold-red against the kitchen window flamed the afternoon sunlight.

39 collocations for  flaming