Upwards, now, in silence, the two men climbed until at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
Instantaneously half a hundred lights were aflare. From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Road to Paradise] Reference
The great wood fire was all aflare in the deep chimney-place. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
His own emblem, quivering and aflare, was winging toward the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
Now the fire was low enough, but the room seemed aflare with myrtle tapers. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
But grim, sir -- an 'with little patches o' red aflare in his dry white cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
All the earth spirits leapt up with flaming torches and the whole land was aflare. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Drums beating, trumpets blowing, torches aflare, the English freebooter marched straight to the market. From Wordnik.com. [Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward] Reference
Above all, Chilhowee Mountain, aflare with the scarlet glow of its autumnal woods, touched the blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
The doors were aflare with flickering lights from within, and the unctuous smell of frying pork was on the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
He used to tell me about how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
After watching Richard with the anxious sympathy of one ineffectual for another, it said: "Let me," and kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Living Alone] Reference
As he looked all about him and pondered upon the mystic gloom, he began to believe that at any moment the ominous distance might be aflare, and the rolling crashes of an engagement come to his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
The sky was heavy with drifting masses of cloud, aflare with red and gold and all the sunset colours, from the black line of coast, lying in the west, far into the east, where sea and sky were turning gray. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Luke of the Labrador] Reference
It was Saturday night, and as they dipped down into the slums that lie under the shadow of the Abbey, Old Pye Street, Peter's Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps, and all but impassable with costers 'barrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian A Story] Reference
Below the boughs the road swept along the crest of the crag and thence curved inward, and one surveying the scene from the windows of a bungalow at no great distance could look straight beyond the point of the precipice and into the heart of the sunset, still aflare about the west. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
The front shone with vermilion paint; the interior was aflare with many gas-jets; in the window was disposed a tempting exhibition of 'snacks' of fish, cold roast fowls, ham-sandwiches, and the like; whilst farther back stood a cooking-stove, whereon frizzled and vapoured a savoury mess of sausages and onions. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
"O madam -- my lady!" cried her companion, "Look, yonder be lights -- lanthorns aflare on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference
Putting aside the indeed sad and scandalous history of neglect of this great man and his inspiring community, the greatest lesson to be learned from his story IMO is that the guy with the stirring khutbahs, perfectly nasalized Arabic (preferably with nostrils wildly aflare on every letter. From Wordnik.com. [Akram's Razor - Reflections on Islam, Muslims & America] Reference
With gaudy flags aflare. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Her eyes like soft-shell crabs aflare. From Wordnik.com. [The Re-echo Club] Reference
Through mist and cloud, except the path, aflare. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
On distant citadels aflare. From Wordnik.com. [Soho the Dog] Reference
The burning fire, the aflare love. From Wordnik.com. [United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal] Reference
The sun's aflare. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
Thing was aflare in a moment! ... ". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
Thing was aflare in a moment! ...”. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
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