flamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flamy
Example Sentences
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She was a little oddity, with her fierce, fair hair like spun glass sticking out in a flamy halo round the apple-blossom face and the black eyes, and the men liked an oddity.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
At the last, shaken by the light breeze that sprung up, little flamy darts from the oak whirled into the grave with her.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
Who, good sooth, beside Have seen it well, have walked this empty world When she went steaming, and from pulpy hills Have marked the spurting of their flamy crowns?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
Only the flamy ladies' slippers seemed appropriate to the miles of heat that flickered against the landscape.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
The fire was no longer flamy: and it was sinking.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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