Flame
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This torrent of
flame
carried away the captain and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
A
flame
mounted to his cheeks, a nervous spasm drew his mouth, from which flowed a thin streak of black saliva.
The glances with which he called her had a
flame
in them which she knew well, the
flame
of his crises of jealousy when he would fall on her with his fists, accusing her of committing abominations with her mother's lodger.
Side by side, Captain Nemo and I walked directly toward this conspicuous
flame.
The shovel, tongs, and the nozzle of the bellows, all of colossal size, shone like polished steel, while along the walls hung many pots and pans in which the clear
flame
of the hearth, mingling with the first rays of the sun coming in through the window, was mirrored fitfully.
The
flame
lit up the whole of her, penetrating with a crude light the woof of her gowns, the fine pores of her fair skin, and even her eyelids, which she blinked now and again.
The
flame
of the fire threw a joyous light upon the ceiling; she turned on her back, stretching out her arms.
Appearances, nevertheless, were calmer than ever, Rodolphe having succeeded in carrying out the adultery after his own fancy; and at the end of six months, when the spring-time came, they were to one another like a married couple, tranquilly keeping up a domestic
flame.
How long since she had been with him, sitting on the footstool in the chimney-corner, where she used to burn the end of a bit of wood in the great
flame
of the sea-sedges!
Or at other times, consumed more ardently than ever by that inner
flame
to which adultery added fuel, panting, tremulous, all desire, she threw open her window, breathed in the cold air, shook loose in the wind her masses of hair, too heavy, and, gazing upon the stars, longed for some princely love.
Charles watched them burn, tiring his eyes against the glare of their yellow
flame.
Julien, erect upon his mighty rock, gazed at the sky, kindled to
flame
by an August sun.
Their joy was thenceforward of a far higher nature, the
flame
that devoured them was more intense.
I was calm then,' cried Julien, in desperation, 'I thought that I pitied her ...''The moth singes its wings in the
flame
of the candle,' the Prince continued, 'a metaphor as old as the world.
His boot strikes an anthill two feet high, destroys the habitation of the ants, scatters the ants and their eggs to the four winds ...The most philosophical among the ants will never understand that black, enormous, fearful body--the hunter's boot which all of a sudden has burst into their dwelling with incredible speed, preceded by a terrifying noise, accompanied by a flash of reddish
flame
...'So it is with death, life, eternity, things that would be quite simple to anyone who had organs vast enough to conceive them ...'An ephemeral fly is born at nine o'clock in the morning, on one of the long days of summer, to die at five o'clock in the afternoon; how should it understand the word _night_?
This time they seemed almost sad, but the open gas
flame
that burned with a hiss close above their heads gave off little light and that may have merely created an illusion.
A bright
flame
was burning in that of the common room, and within the very jambs of its monstrous jaws sat Caesar and Katy, at the time of which we write.
There was but barely time to reach the lawn again, before the fire broke through the windows, and wrapped the whole building in a sheet of
flame.
A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not.
The children fastened their eyes upon their bit of candle and watched it melt slowly and pitilessly away; saw the half inch of wick stand alone at last; saw the feeble
flame
rise and fall, climb the thin column of smoke, linger at its top a moment, and then--the horror of utter darkness reigned!
He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the
flame
struggle and expire.
And then one night as I looked I suddenly saw a little flicker on the beacon hill--a single red tongue of
flame
in the darkness.
And then the
flame
shot higher, and I saw the red quivering line upon the water between; and I dashed into the kitchen, screeching to my father that the French had crossed and the Tweedmouth light was aflame.
But of a sudden there came a spurt of
flame
and a whirl of blue smoke from one lugger, then the same from the second, and a rap, rap, rap, from the ship.
The three became but a dark blurr amid the smoke, with the top spars thrusting out in a bristle, and from the heart of that cloud came the quick red flashes of flame, and such a devils' racket of big guns and small, cheering and screaming, as was to din in my head for many a week.
We looked across the valley at the low ridge upon the further side, and saw a thousand little yellow points of
flame
with the dark smoke wreathing up in the heavy air.
The farm that they called Hougoumont was down in front of us, and all the morning we could see that a terrible fight was going on there, for the walls and the windows and the orchard hedges were all
flame
and smoke, and there rose such shrieking and crying from it as I never heard before.
Pray tell her Mrs. ---- desires the favour of her to take the two children in; poor lady, she will be undone, their house is all of a flame,'They took the children in very civilly, pitied the family in distress, and away came I with my bundle.
Waiting had extinguished the
flame
that had formerly fired them.
At times, tongues of reddish
flame
escaped from the wood, and then the faces of the murderers were touched with fleeting gleams of blood.
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