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Example sentences for "fire and"

  • Yet nowhere, perhaps, except from the great canvases of Verestchagin, has there ever come a more awful, powerful plea for peace than from the pages of "Fire and Sword.

  • And truly it did seem a very land of fire and water.

  • And always, as it doth seem to me, had the ship lain upon the Rock, and lookt quiet and silent over the change and wonder and the lonesomeness of all that Country of Fire and water, for ever.

  • The water finding that its element was the lordly ocean, was seized with a desire to rise above the air, and being encouraged by the element of fire and rising as a very subtle vapour, it seemed as though it were really as thin as air.

  • In the tortures which he inflicted on Christians, fire and poison, daggers and dungeons, wild beasts and serpents, and the rack, did their worst.

  • Even in distant Darfur it was the principal topic of conversation' [Slatin, FIRE AND SWORD].

  • For he delivereth his saints from that awful monster the devil, and death, and hell, and that lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment.

  • Flashes of fire and hoods of smoke leaped out of the far thickets, left of us, as cannon roared.

  • We filled our hats with them and Uncle Eb found a spring, beside which we built a fire and had a memorable meal that made me glad of my hunger.

  • He built a fire and began to lay out a supper for us then, while Fred sat down by me to be relieved of his bundles.

  • Still, there was a strong lurking suspicion that the emeute of the negroes had only been temporarily suppressed, and awful forebodings of fire and of blood spread a gloom on the minds of all.

  • Thousands of the birds alighted on the trees, the branches of which snapped and crackled fearfully under the superincumbent load; those of our party who were armed, continued to fire and load as fast as they possibly could.

  • The sheep and the shepherds were not there, but a little lamb had strayed in; and the wonderful figures of fire and mist--they were there in their place.

  • She was still kneeling by the creche, keeping watch with the wonderful figures of fire and mist.

  • Each of the seven divisions in turn has seven subdivisions, and in each compartment there are seven rivers of fire and seven of hail.

  • You are full of fire and energy, and as active as a girl.

  • Look at that glorious light yonder, that mighty world of fire and flame, without which our little world would be dark and dreary.

  • In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written.

  • In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature.

  • In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always ready; college girl; come round; few hundred yards away; fire ceremony; fire department; fire discipline; fire insurance; fire protection; fire shall; fire under; fire upon; fired again; fires were; fluoric acid; free silver; past life; poor mamma; primary source; said grimly; scale production; small time; telegraph line; what might have been; whither away; whole black