flamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flamy
Example Sentences
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Only the flamy ladies' slippers seemed appropriate to the miles of heat that flickered against the landscape.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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
The thin candle guttered, the fire was no longer flamy but red.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness.
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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