I made a fire very quickly, prepared the coffee, baked the graham bread, toasted white bread, trimmed the solar lamp, and made another fire in the dining-room before seven o'clock.

I was up before six, made the fire in the kitchen, and made coffee.

I saw some outburst of fire when Mrs. Hale's book was spoken of.

" "Generally he sat by an open fire, with his feet thrust into the coals, and an open volume of Thackeray upon his knees.

Mrs. H. was somewhat of an invalid, and Mr. Hawthorne tried in vain to make the servant understand that she must have a fire in her room.

He spoke no word of French, German, or Italian, but he said emphatically, 'Make a fire in Mrs. Hawthorne's room.'

So I said in execrable French, 'Make a fire,' and pointed to the grate; of course the gesture was understood.

Another has a pair of bellows and is blowing a fire.

On another wall is a portrait of Newton, and on a third the sweet face of a young girl, Dr. Whewell's niece, of whom I heard him speak as 'Kate.' "Dr. Whewell received us in this room, standing on a rug before an open fireplace; a wood fire was burning cheerily.

There was just the light of a coal fire, and as I stood before it Sir John bustled in, an old man, much bent, with perfectly white hair standing out every way.

"While Mrs. Somerville talked, the old gentleman, seated by the fire, busied himself in toasting a slice of bread on a fork, which he kept at a slow-toasting distance from the coals.

That big chair he loved to sit in when the fire was agoin'.

"I saw a smoke last evening, too, which must have been made by a camp-fire.

They set fire to the city, and burnt it to the ground, and committed such horrid carnage among the remaining magicians that streams of loathsome blood crimsoned all the place.

The force of fire soon flutters and decays When ocean, swelled by storms, its wrath displays.

in thy declining days, Forfeit the honours of thy country's praise?" This artful censure set his soul on fire, But patriot firmness calm'd his burning ire;

"That crimson tent where spear-men frowning stand, And steel-clad veterans form a threatening band, Holds mighty Gúdarz, famed for martial fire, Of eighty valiant sons the valiant sire; Yet strong in arms, he shuns inglorious ease, His lion-banners floating in the breeze.

Rustem, oppressed by Gíw's desponding thought, Amidst his Chiefs the mournful Monarch sought; To him he told Sohráb's tremendous sway, The dire misfortunes of this luckless day; Told with what grasping force he tried, in vain, To hurl the wondrous stripling to the plain: "The whispering zephyr might as well aspire To shake a mountainsuch his strength and fire.

"When first I saw him, graceful in his might, He looked far other than a Tartar knight; Wondering I gazednow Destiny has thrown Him on thy swordhe fought, and he is gone; And should even Heaven against the earth be hurled, Or fire inwrap in crackling flames the world, That which is pastwe never can restore, His soul has travelled to some happier shore.

One day Súdáveh, the daughter of the Sháh of Hámáverán, happening to see Saiáwush sitting with his father, the beauty of his person made an instantaneous impression on her heart, The fire of love consumed her breast, The thoughts of him denied her rest.

At length he resolved to ascertain the innocence of Saiáwush by the ordeal of fire; and the fearless youth prepared to undergo the terrible trial to which he was sentenced, telling his father to be under no alarm.

" A tremendous fire was accordingly lighted on the adjacent plain, which blazed to an immense distance.

The king himself fell from his throne in horror on seeing him surrounded and enveloped in the flames, from which there seemed no chance of extrication; but the gallant youth soon rose up, like the moon from the bursting element, and went through the ordeal unharmed and untouched by the fire.

This furious animal was called Sohám, on account of its being of the color and nature of fire.

And he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and Isaac said, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" yet suffered himself to be bound by his father on the altar.