The war became a consuming fire round and about the world, causing losses both to victors and vanquished out of all proportion to the issues involved.
Our wills may bear us up awhile, but sooner or later we must unburden our feelings, or feel the burning of a slow consuming fire, destroying all our peace and happiness.
If he dropped off to sleep, it was but for a moment, and he awoke with a start, to feel the heat burning up his soul with its slow, consuming flame.
There was no rest in him, day and night he lived in the consuming flame.
He felt his entire being go out to her in a consuming flame.
On the other hand, where the consumption consisted of superfluities, the producing nation was dependent on the consuming one.
It might be regarded (he observed) as a general rule, that, where one nation consumed the necessaries of life produced by another, the consuming nation was dependent on the producing one.
Will they contribute any thing by consuming imported spirits?
If you will "receive the kingdom that cannot be moved, you must have grace in your hearts to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear; for our God is a consuming fire," Heb.
And though we "receive a kingdom which cannot be moved," yet must our "acceptable service of God be with reverence and godly fear, because our God is a consuming fire.
Imprint therefore on your minds the true character of them, which I have here laid down, and look abroad upon the effects, and then you will fear this confounding sin, as much as a consuming plague.
The fire of thy separation from Me was fast consuming thee, when the ocean of My presence surged before thy face, cheering thine eyes and those of all creation, and filling with delight all things visible and invisible.
Brave every danger, and consecrate your souls to its consuming flame.
Calyste endeavored to conquer his repugnance in order to comfort her; but nourishment taken against his will served only to increase the slow fever which was now consuming the beautiful young life.
Every moment she expected to see the black man spring,--and yet movement would have marred the drama of that consuming hatred.
The nose was classic, and wanted strength; the restless eyes that at times seemed fixed on her were smouldering windows of a burning house: the fire that stirred her was also consuming him.
It is true that mankind are, for the most part, excited to productive industry solely by the desire of subsequently consuming the result of their labour and accumulation.
And yet we suffer ourselves to be the playthings of an inquisitive desire to become acquainted with the causes of things, and a consuming anxiety incites us to ponder over the destinies of mankind and of the world.
Quite the contrary, he enjoyed praising his rival’s verses, which, in spite of his tender age, revealed traces here and there of a consuming energy.
Another of their maxims is: "How can mortal man walk after God, who is an all-consuming fire?
When Biedenbach, the German terrorist, hid with us some time later, he installed a smoke-consuming device that enabled us to sit by crackling wood fires on winter nights.
Of course, this overproduction he mentions was the profits of the capitalist system over and beyond the consuming power of the capitalists.
Many valuable relics have been found, among which, curious to relate, is the smoke-consuming device of Biedenbach's mentioned in the narrative.
The term "gas engine" is properly restricted to engines literally consuming gas, either illuminating gas or natural gas; but the term is also applied to engines using gasolene as a fuel.
If it contain any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render such article injurious to the health of the person consuming it.
It had ever been one of his rules in dealing with women to feed their physical vanity sparingly and cautiously, lest it should blaze up into one of those consuming flames that produce a very frenzy of conceit.
But the consuming fire is more terrible than any punishment invented by riotous and cruel imagination.
His cheeks were more sunken, his hair more gray, and his eyes more weary--with a consuming fire in them that had no longer much fuel and was burning remnants.
Cynthia was standing slightly apart from her Form, consuming thick bread and butter with an air of pensive melancholy, and twisting a pet bracelet that adorned her wrist.
Nobody would have objected to herconsuming as much as she liked of the mental provender supplied had she stopped at that.
I, sharpe and piercing to maintaine his truth, Whiles thyconsuming Canker eates his falsehood Som.
Titus, prepare thy noble eyes to weepe, Or if not so, thy noble heart to breake: I bring consuming sorrow to thine age Ti.
It was composed of two parts--one part to last nine years, for the benefit of the manufacturers: the other part to last for ever, for the benefit of the planting and consuming interest.
By a life of sin, they have placed themselves so out of harmony with God, their natures have become so debased with evil, that the manifestation of His glory is to them a consuming fire.
In solemn silence they gaze upon it as it draws nearer the earth, becoming lighter and more glorious, until it is a great white cloud, its base a glory like consuming fire, and above it the rainbow of the covenant.
While God is to the wicked a consuming fire, He is to His people both a sun and a shield.
Its purity, holiness, and peace would be torture to them; the glory of God would be a consuming fire.
And while Abraham sat consuming its contents in ecstasy he suddenly realized that the beautiful lady had forgotten him.
For here were these ladies in the flesh, their great, opaque, almond eyes consuming us with a swift glance, and each walking with a languid grace beside her duenna.
Once more beside him, the feeling of confidence, of belief in him, rose within her and swept all else away--burned in a swift consuming flame the doubts of absence.
Suddenly her fear of them gave place to a consuming hatred of the man who had inspired these articles: of Isaac D.
And I own that Captain Daniel can swear with such a consuming violence as to put any rogue out of countenance.
For all my alarm I saw that his manner was not unkindly, and as I was conscious of a consuming thirst I seized and tipped it eagerly.
She was to be dealt with in no common way, nor was the consuming yearning he discerned in her to be lightly satisfied.
From trials made on this subject, I am enabled to state, that three Argand's lamps, consuming five cubic feet of gas per hour, are sufficient to keep a room 10 feet square at a temperature of 55 deg.
Still think I with delight of those first years, When he was making progress with glad effort, When his ambition was a genial fire, Not that consuming flame which now it is.
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