The fire-eater tried to breach another gas bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

Brian Regan is not a St. Bernard juggling fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

I was a fire-eater, she said with her hands and eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

Not at all the fire-eater he has turned out to be lately.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Power" by Harl Vincent, part 7] Reference

The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange Fairy Book] Reference

The monastery was burning merrily, fired by the fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

There was even a fire-eater who, by way of an extra, swallowed swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret's Little Joke]

On Monday evening, William L. Yancey, "the fire-eater" of Alabama, after.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

At last the fair was over, and the Egyptian fire-eater had left the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference

And the fire-eater of the 43rd now dare not face a glass of old port wine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

You even could stumble into a fire-eater at the cusp of the Cuban Missile Crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

Peer beneath the fire-eater surface and you'll find signs of tender introspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuing 'an Ongoing Experiment'] Reference

Acrobats, including a trapeze artist and a fire-eater, also enlivened "Pagliacci.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tango Opera Loses Its Edge] Reference

He had no weapon but the fire-eater, which was a javelin thrown and now beyond his control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

She slammed the door as I jumped in my cab, sweating like a fire-eater and feeling just as thirsty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

When he came up them, he asked her husband if he would buy blankets, and beads, and the fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

Even Wigfall had to nod; the staunchest Southern fire-eater remembered how bleak things had looked then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

In a moment he was adrift in the whale's belly, floating through the flames, watching the dark fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

Dave and the crowd trailed away from Erma and headed for Senor Alcala, the fire-eater at the end of the row.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charley de Milo] Reference

But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inkspell: Summary and book reviews of Inkspell by Cornelia Funke.] Reference

They have taken you for a fire-eater and a smoke-breather, and when you drew the flame from your lungs it was too much for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference

The game was delayed for six minutes in the first half after lamp oil spilled at center court during a performance by a fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Knicks overcome Raptors, take 2-1 series lead] Reference

This was the kind of steel-edged young fire-eater who'd want a straight answer, p.d.q., and wouldn't wear any diplomatic nods and winks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Dragon]

I am as tough as blazes to my girls myself ... and it just makes them boast about how they've got the worst fire-eater in twenty planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunnel In The Sky]

I convinced them that there's nothing wrong with that, asked them which they'd rather ride, a good, steady trail-horse or your fire-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathbreaker]

Your fireside fire-eater does not think of these things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman] Reference

About 1713 a fire-eater named De Heiterkeit, a native of Annivi, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

A former stiltwalker and fire-eater is stealing NASA's space show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Virginian of the old type, and he was a fire-eater, so the family records say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Weight in Gold] Reference

"I consider him to be a very ambitious, intriguing man, and very much of a fire-eater.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Virginia Scout] Reference

"To be an ambitious fire-eater is not a bad quality in these times," said the governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Virginia Scout] Reference

A young man married is a fire-eater bound over to keep the peace; if he keeps it he worries it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Buxton knew his colonel and that little fire-eater of an adjutant too well to hesitate an instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference