“What do you mean, you shuffler?” panted the fire-eating poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

And he'd better find a couple of one-legged, fire-eating Samoans, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference

Tom Eagleton was one of the true "fire-eating" Democrats in the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-04] Reference

Weird since the other guys are supposedly some fire-eating right-wing Zionists right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Changing Face of the Eternal City | Jewschool] Reference

"Well, the ladies just love carnies," says the sword-swallowing, fire-eating Doc Swan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: March 16, 2003 - March 22, 2003 Archives] Reference

I see and hear our fire-eating stump-orators tell of the right of secession and disunion.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

"You don't usually associate ex-captains with being fire-eating trades unionists, do you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Thereupon Saint-Phal withdrew, but his fire-eating rival was anxious at all hazards for another encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

The next morning he received a challenge from a fire-eating comrade, alleging that he had "insulted a lady.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

And you can totally impress all the fire-eating people because they think this is one of the hardest things to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2004] Reference

And you can totally impress all the fire-eating people, because they think this is one of the hardest things to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 3, 2004] Reference

In retrospect, once you've gone in for fire-eating, a little tongue-piercing is like a walk on the beach, I imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

I'd thought of learning the carnival skill of fire-eating, except I'm not willing to get rid of the beard, so that's right out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday and music musings] Reference

Using the most original adjectives and assuming a superior air, he ordered his command about like some old fire-eating colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference

Roger A. Pryor of Virginia, editor, fire-eating secessionist and congressman, wore the fresh stars and wreath of a brigadier general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

I remember so well one fire-eating officer who was going to teach any prisoners that came into his hands what British sternness meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms] Reference

But it ` s really bad, because it means that the person that teaches you fire-eating on the Web might have the wrong information, you know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2007] Reference

Maulud, the fire-eating A.D.C., begged fifty mules off me, put across them fifty of his trained infantrymen, and told them they were cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

I had some difficulty, I might tell you, in restraining our fire-eating young American here from turning himself into a one-man firing squad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eagles Dare]

And Guinness 'greatest record, fire-eating, glass-walking, I don't even want to hear that, hair-pulling, death-defying stunts, we'll tell you about the man who started it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2004] Reference

Molten lead, for fire-eating purposes, is made as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

"What do you mean, you shuffler?" panted the fire-eating poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference

It appeared at the time Powell was showing his fire-eating stunts in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

Look combined fire-eating and sword-swallowing in a rather startling manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

I'm ready to eat dirt, if need be, but for a fire-eating parson I still think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference

Why, you fire-eating Hotspur, you began it yourself with a fling at the Irish.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

It was, it could only be, the fire-eating and prison-inspecting colonel himself!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference

"You may feel like meeting Rolf Raymond, but I simply can't stand up before that fire-eating colonel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell Down South] Reference

The fire-eating Captain would most probably blow that gentleman's brains out in the heat of his first excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Allen House] Reference

Rumour, with her hundred tongues, forthwith spread the report that the fire-eating captain had killed his brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea] Reference

That would seem to be the case after Bill O 'took on Rush Limbaugh, the fire-eating grand poobah of everything right-wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

He did not quail in the least before the fierce, fire-eating look given him by the man with the bristling mustache and imperial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell Down South] Reference

The feats they perform with it far exceed the most wonderful acts of fire-eating and fire-handling accomplished by civilized jugglers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference