flamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flamy
Example Sentences
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The cat upon the stairs Watches with flamy eye For the sleepy one who shall unawares Let her go stealing by.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
Yet would'st thou more? in yonder cloud behold, Whose sarsenet skirts are edg'd with flamy gold, A matchless youth! his nod these worlds controls, Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow, Congealed, the crocus' flamy bud to grow?
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
In yonder cloud behold, Whose sarsenet skirts are edged with flamy gold, A matchless youth! his nod these worlds controls, Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan
But there ought to be some roses, warm and flamy.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Then he riz his head and stired straight fer me, his eyes gitting flamier as he looked, an’ his tail all on the jerk.
From Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville
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