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274 examples of Flame in a sentence

He spoke in a hesitating, spiritless manner, and the young woman, huddled up on her low chair, continued gazing dreamily at the flame without listening.
The murderers shivered, and drawing nearer the fire, extended their hands towards the flame as if an icy puff of wind had suddenly passed through the warm room.
The sinister truth, like a flash of flame, scorched the eyes of the paralysed woman and penetrated within her with the concussion of a shaft of lightning.
But I, by some strange miracle, live on prey to absence, jealousy, disdain; racked by suspicion as by certainty; forgotten, left to feed my flame alone.
We grew up, and with our growth grew the love between us, so that the father of Luscinda felt bound for propriety's sake to refuse me admission to his house, in this perhaps imitating the parents of that Thisbe so celebrated by the poets, and this refusal but added love to love and flame to flame; for though they enforced silence upon our tongues they could not impose it upon our pens, which can make known the heart's secrets to a loved one more freely than tongues; for many a time the presence of the object of love shakes the firmest will and strikes dumb the boldest tongue.
A lady of high degree, with the port of a lofty dame, and the great Don Quixote's flame, and the pride of her village was she.
'"Ah!" cried the goblin, whose cheeks and throat were transparent, as he tossed down the flame, "this warms one, indeed!
The first match flickered in the draft and went out, and before the flame had died he heard a sound in front of him like the shivering backward draw of a wave on a pebbly beach.
The thing lay on the boy's shoulders, a yoke of flame.
Tarvin heard the snap of a clasp, and the Naulahka lay about her feet in ripples of flame.
Over the strife of the schoolsLow the day burnsBack with the kine from the poolsEach one returnsTo the life that he knows where the altar flame glows and the tulsi is trimmed in the urns.
Then with a dull roar the dam opened out its heart in a sheet of white flame, and the masses of flying earth darkened the smoke above.
"Till we meet again, then, dear traitor!""Till we meet again, my forgetful charmer!""Tomorrow, my angel!""Tomorrow, flame of my life!"30 D’ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAND’Artagnan followed Milady without being perceived by her.
But however great was the power of this woman with eyes of flame in reading the hearts of those whose secrets she wished to divine, she met this time with a countenance of such impassivity that no discovery followed her investigation.
"Weak or strong," repeated Milady, "that man has, then, a spark of pity in his soul; of that spark I will make a flame that shall devour him.
She felt by intuition the flame of the opposing passions which burned with the blood in the veins of the young fanatic.
"I must die!"Then she arose of herself, and cast around her one of those piercing looks which seemed to dart from an eye of flame.
Not without difficulty Hans succeeded in lighting the torch; and the flame, preserving its upward tendency, threw enough light to show us what kind of a place we were in.
It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it--just the one straight yellow flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire.
When the flame burned up, we saw an arched stone roof above our heads, and broad deal shelves all round us covered with dusty dishes.
I saw my master approach the dressing-table, hold the papers in the flame of the candle, throw their charred ashes into the grate, and sweep the golden pieces into a small brown canvas bag.
What he could not clear away, however, was the effect of those years of morbid and unnatural life spent in the hidden chambers of the old house; and it was only the devotion of his wife and of his son which kept the thin and flickering flame of his life alight.
A little spluttering was heard and a tiny blue flame sprang up, making a choking smoke.
Herbert quickly turned the match so as to augment the flame, and then slipped it into the paper cone, which in a few seconds too caught fire, and then the moss.
A minute later the dry wood crackled and a cheerful flame, assisted by the vigorous blowing of the sailor, sprang up in the midst of the darkness.
Herbert had just thrown on an armful of dry wood, and the flame cast a bright light into the darkest parts of the passage.
The passage was lighted up with a bright flame.
No smoke escaped from its sides; not a flame could be seen in the dark hollows; not a roar, not a mutter, no trembling even issued from this black well, which perhaps reached far into the bowels of the earth.
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