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Example sentences for "little fire"

  • We took off the packs, and built a little fire of dry sage, and made tea, while Sally and Apache took a good roll and then grazed on weeds and flowers and everything.

  • We drew up the tarpaulins, over blankets and quilts rolled so that the beds looked exactly as if we were in them, our feet to the fire (it was a little fire, of course) and our heads in shadow.

  • He was squatting and building a little fire.

  • Thirty-six hours, or at most sixty, should be the longest time at once; rather give a little fire heat.

  • In such case give a little fire heat, and admit air to purify the house.

  • Muscats, now beginning to ripen, will generally require a little fire heat to push them on; when ripened in good time they are better flavoured and keep longer than when the ripening process is delayed to a late period of the season.

  • A little fire-heat will be necessary in unfavourable weather, with an abundance of air day and night.

  • A little fire-heat applied in the afternoon will be of service to them.

  • This seemed to satisfy him; he dropped back to earth, gathered some dry poplar branches and built a little fire; hanging by a forked stick he drove in the ground his copper tea pail half full of water.

  • Perhaps he could build a little fire; it would keep the wolves at bay, for in the darkness they would come; it would give him a circle of light, and a target when the light fell on their snarling faces.

  • And thrice in that day did I come to little fire-hills that burnt redly, and sent out fire and noise, so that I heard their trouble each time through the forest, before that I was come to them.

  • All this occupied so much time that Tom did not reach his destination that night, but slept by a little fire on the mountain side.

  • Having satisfied himself that neither human habitation nor any human being was within miles of this little hiding place, Tom collected some sticks and built a little fire in one of the crevices between the great blocks of stone.

  • Under two tall cotton-wood trees beside an irrigation ditch a little fire glowed.

  • They had built a little fire of mesquite twigs on the narrow iron platform, and were baking tortillas there; over their heads, against the windy roar of the boiler, fluttered a little line of wash.

  • We curled miserably about a little fire of our own, trying to sleep, trying at least to get warm.

  • At one big bridge that it would take two hours to prepare, I built by myself a little fire in order to get warm.

  • I would fain have a little fire--at least a little fire, a little fire.

  • James had made a little fire for me, before which I drew off my boots and undressed myself.

  • This too had a couple of candles burning over the hearth, and a little fire, for any who wished to come in; but it was empty, for even my Cousin Tom was disporting himself next door in a round dance that had but just begun.

  • A little fire was on the hearth--not great, lest we should be too hot.

  • Most of the floor of it was of smooth ice, but in the middle there was a flat rock; and on this rock there was a little fire burning, a little fire made of coal.

  • They made a little fire on the broad, flat surface of Pulpit Rock, boiled some coffee, and ate their dinner there, that they might watch the wonderful panorama without interruption.

  • I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire.

  • He rose, lighted a little fire on the altar at the foot of the Spirit Rock, and the smoke rose up straight in the still air.

  • Before the rock he lighted a little fire and, when it blazed, he dropped into the flames the tobacco from the crevice.

  • Illustration: "As darkness settled over the North Country, a little fire twinkled in the bush, and the odour of sizzling bacon and frying liver permeated the cozy camp.

  • As darkness settled over the north county, a little fire twinkled in the bush, and the odour of sizzling bacon and frying liver permeated the cozy camp.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little aside; little away; little before; little bush; little change; little child shall lead; little clearing; little difficulty; little home; little melted; little mouse; little north; little pause; little plant; little rabbit; little room; little salt and pepper; little short; little sleep; little solution; little soul; little vinegar; little volume; little water; little ways; little white