The whole blazes up.

Incidentally I wanted to tell you the cabin was hot as blazes, and get you to come to supper.

"Who in blazes are you, kid?

The sun-force bursts its prison- cells, and blazes into the free atmosphere, as light and heat once more; returning in a moment into the same forms in which it entered the growing leaf a thousand centuries since.

Here and there they had been at work for some minutes, and the fresh little blazes they had kindled had so good a start, that the broom alone would have been insufficient; and there the rapidly-arriving pails of water came into capital play.

Th' Ramblin' Kid run once more, yankin' like blazes to get the slack!

"It's hotter than blue blazes in here," Old Heck said when all had finished; "we'd better go out into the big room.

Sometimes her glimmer rises in the twilight, but it is in the black night of revolutions and of wars that her resplendence blazes forth, and her aurorean dawn becomes the Aurora Borealis.

Early starts are necessary these days as the sun blazes after 11 a.m., but nothing can equal the bodily comfort and well-being enjoyed at midday, lunching at the top of some peak or pass, basking in the blaze and imagining the run down cool slopes.

Slips out of bed at two in the morning; into his own covers, and blazes away for an hour.

This is the signal for thousands of assistants, who are concealed over its vast extent, to light the great lamps, and in an instant all is motion, the whole mass is like a living thing, fire whirling and flashing over it in all directions, till the vast pile blazes as if lighted with a thousand suns.

In part, it is merely a change in the object of religious feeling, which blazes up especially strong and enthusiastic in the philosophy of the sixteenth century, as it transfers its worship from a transcendent deity to a universe indued with a soul; in part, the opposition is directed against the mediaeval, ecclesiastical form of Christianity, with its monastic abandonment of the world.

The men chased the dogs and roared blue blazes.

Wot der blazes!"

" "Blay blusesI mean blue blazes!" cried Harry, banging his fist down on the table.

That thug lied like blazes!

"What in blazes is this?" he gasped.

Blazes, but won't there be a big squeal in purgatory when the divil gits howld of him!"

At about nine o'clock of the same evening the Pope performs High Mass in some one of the great churches, generally at Santa Maria Maggiore, when all the pillars of this fine old basilica are draped with red hangings, and scores of candles burn in the side chapels, and the great altar blazes with light.

Nothing'll be said to me if your garden is strafed off the earth; but there's a whole lot going to be said if you are strafed along with it, and I have to report that you had disobeyed orders and not kept under cover, and that I had looked on while you broke ship and was blown to blazes with a boo-kay of onions in your hand.

"Now, perhaps if I'd married some nice woman I might have had 1,000 steers of my own, and a chance to make rules and regulations for my feller-citizensand then again I might have took to gambling and drinking and raising blazes, and broke my poor wife's broom-handle with my hard head.

On the night of the twenty-third of June, the day before the festival of the Saint, great fires are kindled in the streets, squares, and market places of the towns and villages of the Island, and as fire after fire blazes out of the darkness of that summer night, the effect is singularly striking.

His complaints at last exasperated Macgregor, who, on a certain wet evening, when half the men were lounging drearily within the billet, snapped the question: 'What the blazes made ye enlist?'

To blazes wi' sooveneers!

'What the blazes,' he began with affected unconcern, 'dae ye dae at a tea pairty?' 'Eat an' jaw,' came the succinct reply.