liquid fire
flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
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How to use liquid fire in a sentence
Vile aniseed brandy—liquid fire—was sold cheap, and many a man who began the day cool and sober ended it as a raving madman.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThe yell of triumph and joy which arose from the walls of the fortress seemed to turn my blood into liquid fire.
A Heroine of France | Evelyn Everett-GreenThe bottle, however, did not contain soda, but what may well be termed "liquid fire."
Shadow, the Mysterious Detective | Police Captain HowardWhat a wild and spectacular condition existed while the river, deep in the cañon, received these tributaries of liquid fire!
Your National Parks | Enos A. MillsIt was the invention of the seventh century, and was long used with terrific effect by the Greeks, who called it the liquid fire.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for liquid fire
inflammable petroleum or other liquid used as a weapon of war in flamethrowers, etc
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