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“Bloody flaming ashes”

— Robert Jordan

“In the next days it took little provocation for us to flick the flint of our Zippo lighters. Thatched roofs take the flame quickly,…

— Tim O'Brien

“Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.”

— St. John Morris

“Incendiary That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge,…

— Vernon Scannell

“The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of…

— Truman Capote

“The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like…

— William Golding

“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank…

— Charles Dickens

“In the morning they found that the remnants had been cleared, leaving only a circle of black ash to scar the grass. In the…

— Anthony Ryan

“Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction?”

— Paul Russell

“expelled from the garden.”

— N.T. Wright

“Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.”

— Toni Morrison

“The field was empty now. The grasses had been laid flat by more than one game played there, but in the center of it…

— Jennifer A. Nielsen