Example Sentences

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The Boy stood in the sweltering street, Whence all but he had fled; The fast-departing dog-days' heat, Flamed full upon his head.

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various

It cannot be; Not if these cold, flat stones on which we tread Were coulters heated white, and yonder gateway Flamed like a furnace with a sevenfold heat.

From The Golden Legend by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Soon the distant sound Of clanking anvils, and the lengthened breath Provoking fire are heard: and now they reach A wide expanded den where all around Tremendous furnaces, with hellish blaze, Flamed dreadful.

From Poems, 1799 by Southey, Robert

Out against the hushed horizon — out beneath the reverent day, Flamed the Wonder on the waters — flamed, and flashed, and passed away.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

So were the continents by His crownéd grief Together bound, before that Genoese Flamed on the dim Atlantic: so have we, Whose aspect faced the scene, unchallenged right Of language unto all, while memory holds.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various