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Walt Disney Co.’s decision to discontinue its “Infinity” product line suggests the once-hot marriage between videogames and collectible figurines is flaming out.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2016

"Life is flaming up inside you," replied Leehallfae, shaking aer head.

From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David

See! the day its spears hath hurled       From the Eastern world; And each shaft is flaming red As though the night had dying bled.

From Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund O.

When everybody else is flaming in purple and gold the ordinary diplomatic uniform is exceedingly simple and modest; but the Yankee diplomats are the most scrutinized and conspicuous persons to be seen.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

As yesterday, the dawn is flaming over Anaze.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)