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There are flaming torches, dry-ice fog banks and explosions.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2015

In Vienna, where the eating is rich, there are flaming meat platters at the Csardasf�rstin and Alpine trout at the Rotisserie Coq d'Or.

From Time Magazine Archive

Churches, synagogues, ashrams and mosques without reason are flaming candles without light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elsewhere, there are flaming hoops perched at different levels that performers slip in and out of with ease, as though the hoops were only metal and not encased in flickering flames.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

And now the same hosts in their immortal youth, unweakened by the ages which have brought earthly warriors to dust and their swords to rust, are flaming and flashing there in the midday sun.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander