The heart, methinks, is aptly wrought and popped, and the flame in sooth flame-like!

At midnight once the storming Army came, Yet do I see the miserable sight, The Bayonet, the Soldier, and the Flame That followed us and faced us in our flight: When Rape and Murder by the ghastly light Seized their joint prey, the Mother and the Child!

I could not make out the words by the light of the tall lamp, so I lit a wax match from my match-box, and protecting the flame in the hollow of my hand, began studying the strange message.

The Roman has raised such a smoke that his fingers will quickly be scorched in the flame.

Will the flame that you're so rich in Light a fire in the kitchen?

Your sad relation to repeat that sound; That holy name whose fervor does excite A fire within mee sacred as the flame The vestalls offer: see how it ascends As if it meant to combat with the sunn For heats priority!

gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend &c 305; sprout &c 194. aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino [Lat.], superadd &c (add) 37; spread &c (disperse) 73.

I lighted the heap, and tossed the gifts, one after another, into the flame.

He is somewhat like the salamander, and lives in the flame of love, which pains he expresseth comically.

Now the fat was running through the cracks of the skin, feeding the flame, which was invading the abdomen.

We have to consider the flame, the charred substance, and the ash.

A minute later the light gave some flickering flashes, failings, and sputters, and then the wick tottered, and out popped the flame, leaving us with the chilly grey of a March evening creeping up in the corners of the room.

I light a wax vesta, and as I am sheltered from the wind, the flame keeps upright.

The fire had been covered as it always was at night, but it blazed when she stirred it, and by the light of the flame she found a candle on the tall mantelpiece.

But while we strove to feed the flame with some of our own vitality, it flickered and went out, leaving the hue of ashes where the rosy tinge of life had been.

If they have been thoroughly carbonized, they will not glow when removed from the flame, and the fibers may even be heated white hot before consuming.

At best it could be taken only as the symbol of some inner meaning, the shrine of an indwelling spirit nobler than itself; just as a lamp of alabaster owes its beauty and its worth to the flame it more than half conceals, the light transmitted through its scarce transparent walls.

The Flame and the serpent.

But the flame of battle was lighted in Robert's soul.

The old Greeks knew it well, and they baptized its prismatic loveliness with their sunny symbolism, and called it the Flame-Flower.

As soon as they were alone, the latter glanced behind him and saw the flame was within an inch of the powder.

So in a modern city if all the gas were turned off simultaneously at all the burners but one, the flame would no doubt blaze at that one burner with a fierceness such as no single burner could shew when all are burning at the same time.

Its charred end curled down and twisted away from her and her heart sank; but the tall figure of Palmyre for a moment came between, the wick was snuffed, the flame tapered up again, and for a long time burned, a bright, tremulous cone.

The flame was thus thrown into vibrations corresponding to the vibrations of sound.

For I am eager, and the flame of life Burns quickly in the fragile lamp of clay.