227 examples of ablaze in sentences

A human figure, glowing like a diamond ablaze, leaped out from it; another shot down from the foremast.

The electric lights which it was Judge Hildreth's fancy to have ablaze in every room downstairs until the central current was shut off, still gleamed steadily upon the rigid figure before the desk, with the white, drawn face and the awful look of horror in its staring eyes.

Then sprang the squat man Osric to his feet, with clenched fist upraised and eyes ablaze 'neath his matted hair.

" "Never fear, sir," cried Tom, his lips white with anger and his eyes ablaze.

The whole town was ablaze with excitement over its team's great showing against the State, and the talk at table was all of the way Cartwright's eleven could now go romping down the schedule and take every other college into camp, including, of course, Barton Poly, their dearest foe.

" Mr. Bell answered, in tones of suppressed anger, his face all ablaze with excitement, "If I could choose who should be thus carried off, I would do the Commonwealth a service by ridding her of a swarm of malignant fanatics.

Nay, so far will the fancy lead, that I have seemed to see, in the stained glass between the tracery of the windows, such gorgeous sheets of colour as sometimes flash on the eye, when, far aloft, between high stems and boughs, you catch sight of some great tree ablaze with flowers, either its own or those of a parasite; yellow or crimson, white or purple; and over them again the cloudless blue.

Who can in words relate Oswald's unhappy fate, Left to these monsters, whose hate was ablaze?

The Frost King's touch, so light and cold, Like that of the Persian king of old, Hath turned its roof from green to gold, Till the hillside seems ablaze.

] "Move a limb and I will kill you!" shouted the young missionary, his face all ablaze with passion.

" Tony's dark eyes were ablaze with anger.

New Zealand was all ablaze with the war spirit.

His eyes seemed bulging out on his cheeks; his great hands were knotted; his shoulders were hunched forward, and his mottled face was ablaze with passion.

The three sisters waited till the stick was ablaze, and then they were gone.

But he was mistaken; for within a month of his departure Peloponnesos was ablaze.

The Piazza itself was then ablaze with the light of countless lamps; dainty lanterns, colored as the rainbow, swayed to the soft breeze between the arches of the colonnade.

The third of the men, a youth who wore a suit of white velvet, and whose vest was ablaze with gold and jewels, now advanced jestingly.

IV The clergyman, meanwhile, had closed the heavy door, shutting out the darkness, and now led the way across a large, flagged hall into a room, ablaze with lamp and fire, the walls lined thickly with books, furnished cozily if plainly.

But the hall, he saw, was not only alive with "music," it was ablaze with lighta white and brilliant glory that at first dazzled him to the point of temporary blindness.

We build ships for new voyages, and burst into unknown waters with our Viking shields of victory ablaze in the morning sun.

On the Madonie mountains, in the north of the island, the herdsmen kindle them at intervals, so that the crests of the mountains are seen ablaze in the darkness for many miles.

The setting ablaze of the five casks, and later on of the eight casks, by the Grand Master, was a signal for the others to kindle their fires in the different parts of the town.

When the bonfire is ablaze, the horns of the cattle are pared and the parings thrown into the flames, after which the animals are driven through the fire.

At Ingleton, a small town nestling picturesquely at the foot of the high hill of Ingleborough in western Yorkshire, "within the last thirty years or so it was a common practice to kindle the so-called 'Need-fire' by rubbing two pieces of wood briskly together, and setting ablaze a large heap of sticks and brushwood, which were dispersed, and cattle then driven through the smoking brands.

ELIZABETH GODMAN Of all the women who set the communities ablaze with their witcheries, none in fertility of invention and performance surpassed Elizabeth Godman of New Havena member of the household of Stephen Goodyear, the Deputy Governor.

227 examples of  ablaze  in sentences