7559 examples of flames in sentences

The Hungarian Countess Marie Erdödy (née Countess Niczky) is listed among his flames, though Schindler thinks it "nothing more than a friendly intimacy between the two."

Another well-placed shell dropped just under the gunners' quarters on the front train, and instantly the car was enveloped in flames.

The flames spread and produced an extensive conflagration, in the course of which the largest part of the great library was destroyed.

He discovers the Martyr and Confessor without the Tryal of Flames and Tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the Reward of Actions, which they had never the Opportunity of Performing.

It is in his ninth Book, where Juno, speaking of the Trojans, how they survived the Ruins of their City, expresses her self in the following words; Num copti potuere copi, num incense cremorunt Pergama? Were the Trojans taken even after they were Captives, or did Troy burn even when it was in Flames?]

" Mr. Travers dreamed that night of taking large, desperate leaps into space on a wild horse that snorted forth flames, and that rose at solid stone walls as though they were hayricks.

No, you may pursue your evil course for a whileyou, and your companion in crime; but a day of retribution will arrive for botha day when ye shall be devoured, living, by flames of firewhen all your sins shall arise before your eyes, and ye shall have no time for repentanceand when ye shall pass from one fierce fire to another yet fiercer, and wholly unquenchable!"

Around this very square marched the procession of the Holy Office, in all the insolent blasphemy of its power, and on these very stones were kindled the flames that were to destroy its victims.

The fine old roof and the great bronze screen which separated it from the nave had perished in the flames.

According to the famous conclusion of the Essay, all volumes which contain anything other than "abstract reasonings concerning quantity or number" or "experimental reasonings concerning matter of fact and existence" deserve to be committed to the flames.

Its flames were a strange bluish color, and as they shot up into the darkness which was almost complete under the shade of that great tree, the children could plainly see strange figures showing black against the light, leaping and dancing around the fire.

First of all they noticed that the fire was not an ordinary fire, but a huge blazing plum pudding which accounted for the queer color of its flames.

The leaping dancing flames of the plum-pudding fire showed their angry faces and strange figures.

My mind, till now so dark, Receives a sudden spark That glows and flames to perfect comprehension; And I, whom no Rosetta Stone assists, Become the peer of Egyptologists, From whom exotic tongues no secrets keep; For this is what the alien blighter says: "Nice orang'; three for one piastre; very cheap.

Sin Saxon came across the lawn, crowned with gold and scarlet, trailing creepers twined about her shoulders, and flames of beauty in her full hands.

Then the thought of the stake and the flames entered his mind and appalled him.

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.

He said not a word, until feeling that the flames had seized upon him.

"It is good," admitted the hunter as he sat Turkish fashion on the leaves, and spread out his hands before the growing flames.

They let the flames die, but a comfortable little bed of coals remained, glowing within the shelter of the rocks.

Twelve fires, all good and large, burned gayly, throwing out ruddy flames from great beds of glowing coals, while the aroma of food was now much stronger and very appetizing.

Noticing the vast amount of dead wood lying about, as was often the case in the wilderness, he dragged up many boughs and began to build a wall on the exposed side of the flames.

I was accustomed to confide in his honesty, and I was suddenly called away, in the present instance, to attend to the increasing progress of the flames.

In another pile were discarded household utensilsold pots and pans and burnt-out kettles, old stoves through the linings of which the flames had eaten and the rust had gnawed.

Pope compares the word Christian, in the following couplet: "Go, purified by flames ascend the sky, My better and more Christian progeny.

7559 examples of  flames  in sentences