" "It is unique," he agreed eagerly, his eyes burning like two coals of fire, so intense was his interest.

The light flashed on Isobel's golden head, and McCready stared at it, his eyes burning like red coals, until he saw that Thorpe was awakening.

Ambuscades, barricades in the streets, loopholes cut in the cemetery walls, trenches hastily dug and filled with dead, night fighting, often hand to hand, surprises, the sudden flash of bayonets, a rain of iron, a rain of fire, mills and houses burning like torchesfields red with the dead and with the flaming corn fruit of the fields, and flower of the race!the sacrifice consummated, the cup drunk to the lees.

" Pearl hung up the receiver with a click, and, pressing her lips together, walked over to the window with two crimson spots burning like danger signals on her cheeks.

His black eyes were burning like two fires beneath his white brows, his lips were ashy, and his breath hot and hurried.

The slurs against the Indian that stained the lips of our opponents were already burning like a dry fever within my breast.

She drew nearer to him, her eyes, so cold to others, burning like sapphires as they were raised to his.

He stood, motionless, the red light in his eyes burning like distant camp-fires in the night.

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent, and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: and as I have gathered all the earth, as one gathereth eggs, therefore shall the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire."

Doubtless, as soon as he had begun to burn like a bonfire he had fallen forward, which would account for the chair being only blackened; and nothing of him was left, not a bone, not a tooth, not a nail, nothing but this little heap of gray dust which the draught of air from the door threatened at every moment to sweep away.

A dull sunset lay low on the water, burning like a bale-fire through the snaky trail of smoke that went writhing past the car windows.

5. "Shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever?"

Through the dense masses of smoke, terrifying glimpses of fierce, clean flame; a resinous dead stump burning like a torch; a great tree standing helpless like a martyr at the stake, suddenly transformed into a frenzied pillar of fire....

Gray-faced, his eyes burning like the smouldering coals in the fire, Donald MacDonald stood a step behind them, his long rifle in his hands.

Never in his life before had he known the full meaning of fatigue,fatigue that was like a paralysis, blunting the mechanism of the brain, burning like a slow fire in his muscles, poisoning the vital fluids of his nerves.

To the east the bare hillsides with their limestone ramparts smouldered in mist and sun, or shimmered, burning like any hillside of the south.

I feel as though I had drawn near to a spirit burning like a fiery lamp, and that my own torpid and inert spirit had been kindled at it.

In London he came to know a young Englishwoman of weak health, but burning like himself with all the ardour of revolutionary propaganda, who would walk from morning till night in the lanes and surroundings of workshops and laboratories, distributing pamphlets and printed leaflets that she kept in a band-box that was always hanging on her arm.

Their arms were outstretched; their eyes burning like the eyes of seraphs.

As the afternoon advanced, the sun grew red as if looked at through smoked glass, burning like a great coal of fire or a broad disk of red-hot iron.

The western sun trailed long shadows across the cañon; shadows that drifted imperceptibly farther and farther, spreading, commingling, softening the broken outlines of ledge and brush until the walled solitude was brimmed with dusk, save where a red shaft cleft the fast-fading twilight, burning like a great spotlight on a picketed horse and a man asleep, his head pillowed on a saddle.

Midway across the slope was a bare spot burning like white fire in the desert sun.

"And I swear they shall," broke in Walter Butler, his dark eyes burning like golden coals.

From these I can guess he must have watchedand with what feelings!the progress of the dreadful fires starting over the city; must have seen, down the long straight street, native Christians burning like torches, and must have heard the fiendish shouts of "Kill!"

His eyes rested on the beacon above the prophet's home, burning like a ball of fire over the black canopy of tree-tops.