sea fire
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sea fire
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The British could not cover the troops from sea fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they worship the sun, the moon, the host of heaven, the rivers, the sea, fire, air, and what not.
From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander
But in preparing the ship for sea, fire had not been sufficiently considered.
From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
It may be the sea, fire, loneliness, the past, the present, the future, hereafter, a wife with an angel’s face and the tongue of the Devil, a rat maybe, or a shadow itself.
From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas
It shone in the shadowy grass, smeared with sea fire as if one of the submarine monsters had crawled into the twilight garden; but it had the head of a dead man.
From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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