flamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flamy
Example Sentences
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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
Those whose duty it was sped swiftly downwards to find Brien of the O'Brien nation; and while they were gone, all in vain the seraph Cuchulain crushed flamy barbs against that bosom of doom.
From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James
The cat upon the stairs Watches with flamy eye For the sleepy one who shall unawares Let her go stealing by.
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow Congeal’d, the crocus, flamy bud to glow?
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry
But there ought to be some roses, warm and flamy.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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