On the second try, it burst into flame and he peered down. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these had a picture painted on its side of a lion jumping through a flaming hoop and the words Hawkins Circus spelled out in bright letters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flickering light. Pinkish. Could be lightning. Could be gunfire. Could be a bomber squadron going up in flames. I’m going to change course a bit and go around it.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His body seemed a flaming cross as words boiled hysterically out of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Percy couldn’t imagine what kind of courage it had taken for Frank to embark on a quest, knowing that one small flame could snuff out his life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later the whole building was in flames, and it was impossible to breathe because of the bombs and the smoke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was “flamed”—roasted by fierce criticism—within an inch of my life for months. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the anonymous letter, which burned so quickly that as it flamed I hurriedly unfolded another: It was that slip upon which Jack had written my Brotherhood name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small flames tore at the darkness as matches and cigarette lighters were lit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balls of green and orange flame crackled overhead, leaving streaks between the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the end they skewered bits of meat on branches and held them in the flames: and even then almost as much boy was roasted as meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pinmei took another look at her home, but only a sea of flames, crackling orange and red, met her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Down below, the rink’s surface glistened with water, but not enough to make a difference in dampening the flames. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We came upon a fire engine in a neighborhood of flame. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They looked strangely impressive, silhouetted against the flames. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When they were done, there was no sound but the faint crackle of the flames and a distant sigh of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The yule log burned on the hearth and flaming torches filled the sconces. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I addressed Miig, who was sitting up very straight, staring into the low flames. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the fan blew upon it, the flame of the votary candle swayed and flickered. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not only was the fire’s heat burning the firefighters, it was also creating a powerful updraft that sucked flaming embers and pieces of cloth and wood into the air. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

How the flames are made to shift from one vibrant hue to another. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Turu stands in front of the popping flames, waiting in stillness for the tension to build, and I hover on the edge of the crowd, as I used to do. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Hold it, I prayed, hold it... ...as her horrified eyes swung down over the side of the chair, the Hot Seat, saw the painted flames... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the house except Lori’s hair had caught on fire, but the explosion had blown back her coat and skirt, and the flames had scorched her thighs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No harm, no foul. We got a game to win, don’t we? Head in the flames!” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled the pages with cider to make them more inflammable, touched a match to them, and a little jet of flame curled upward. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only had I flamed out as a housekeeper/ server, I had forgotten to give George my tips, and, for reasons perhaps best known to hardworking, generous people like Gail and Ellen, this hurts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devan fed fresh logs to the fire until the flames leapt up again, fierce and furious, driving the shadows back into the comers of the room, devouring all her unwanted dreams. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Stella expected to see fire in Mr. Spencer’s eyes, fire like the flames that had made tinder of his house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Moqorro shouted something, and green flames leapt from the dragon’s maw atop his staff to vanish in the night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I coughed reflexively and sucked down another lungful of the burning air just as I entered the wall of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shot white-hot columns of flame at the giant, but Clytius’s smoky aura absorbed them on impact. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was no passing down it; the flames billowed from each side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The man watched him that he not topple into the flames. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He stared at the candle for a long time, then put down his cup and held his palm above the flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A memory of my seven-year-old self launching the flaming snowball into the police headquarters flickers through my mind. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Around and around the fire he moved, finally slowing until he sat down and rested peacefully on a log near the flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He saw that the sword which Frodo still held unsheathed was glittering with blue flame; and he saw that though the sky behind was now dark, still the window in the tower was glowing red. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I pull a candle close to me and push the soft wax at the top of it into the blue flame. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The flames twisted, and embers sparked but didn’t fall to the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men hauled the cumbersome canvas hose as close to the flames as possible and aimed a stream of water at the burning building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to step outside, the conquistadors cowered in shelters beneath a relentless, weeks-long barrage of flaming stone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m sure the naan is going to drop onto the flames, but she explains that the water seals it to the metal. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"Under the sea, smoke rises in bubbles, and flames bum green and' blue and black," Patchface sang somewhere. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hotter than the flames that once licked around my bed before Papa pulled me out of our burning house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw watched the blue-edge of flame creeping and flickering and expected to feel exultant, but there was nothing much, it scarcely interested him any more. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But the face I was looking for was as bright as the sun and the flame of desire—and it belonged to Marie. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Someday the rerun will come to an end and you'll see all the stars start to flick off, like a billion little flames blown out by the wind. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

On each floor as I passed, smoke and flame arose. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t, I’m sending a flaming squirrel after Mrs. Cameron.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There seemed no need yet to alert her, so he just continued to clear his throat and hurry along between the flame bursts. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We all stood a long moment in a silence broken only by the sound of the potion boiling over its pot of flame. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eric breathed on the wood till it glowed and sent out a little flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It flashes orange for a moment, then disappears into the flames. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It felt like an electric jolt flamed a trail from my elbow to my face. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mama pats his flames with a dish towel, her hands. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he rose and moved around the flames, eating berries off imaginary bushes and catching fish from an imaginary stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The woman had broken free of her bonds and was shouting louder than before: “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere ...” Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet away, another shape, hairier, fled the growing flames. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only things that moved were the flames and the snake, coiling and uncoiling in the glittering cage behind Voldemort’s head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It burned there like a flame and her soul melted with sweet pain, and her face went now white, now red. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was a crash and a flash of flame and smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

To the east, a fence and shed of James Dalton’s went up in flames; to the west, a barn smoldered for a few minutes, then flared up into a thousand yellow-orange fingers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Goblet of Fire now shone more brightly than anything in the whole Hall, the sparkling bright, bluey-whiteness of the flames almost painful on the eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If the crushing debris and the flames didn’t get them, the smoke did. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, cheddar ranch, flaming hot, and I tried to figure out which would be the one that could be most easily beaten by a stick of gum. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even Ghost looked up hungrily, flames shining in his red eyes as he sniffed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The flames spread over every inch of my throat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boar raised his head, snorting ... and flame engulfed him, black fire shot with red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As one rolled into the pile of fallen silk, Pinmei stared as the fabric smoldered and curled, the flames sputtering as if gasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He is pointing to his chest where there is a big heart with flames coming out of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fireplace was in the corner of the room; the flames blazed up, snapping the kindling and sucking at the wind that came down the chimney. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I begin searching for a branch large enough to reach into the flames and pull out the burning cooler. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It rested near some tall grass, completely untouched by the flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Juniper desperately tried to beat out the flames with her green shawl, but it was only making things worse. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After the Great Fire and the arrival of the Governor, flame of any kind had been outlawed in the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Out of his mouth issued a blue flame which turned into the round shape of a small naked woman. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belched a huge gout of flame and charged the fractured oak tree again, striking with its great blunt wedge of a head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I tossed in the match, a cone of flame shot up with a whoosh like a jet afterburner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The warhorses feared the flames and fought to get away, injuring themselves and other horses as they twisted at their lines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were trying to reach the main gates, but the defenders above pelted them with rocks and shot flaming bolts from the scorpions, blasting craters around their feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He refused to allow Shin to eat them until they’d found a furnace or flame where a rat could be spread out on the head of a shovel and cooked properly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It be like a wild flame trying to burn, burn while everyone else wants to extinguish it. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I saw a gush of blue flame rise high above the rooftops and heard it roar again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Underneath were rows of books that not a flame had touched. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the flames were tinged with blue, making the scene dreamlike and surreal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flame had a lovely light, staining the paper, curling the edges, making the slanting writing impossible to distinguish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But he does not accept, the flames lisped back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a pile of toilet paper in the toilet, lit it, and when it started burning, the flame shooting silently up out of the bowl, I flushed it down the toilet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in Yossarian’s ward, almost three hundred feet away, they could hear the roar of the blaze and the sharp cracks of flaming timber. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When all of the ingredients had been combined and crushed into a fine powder, she drew a small knife from her pocket and bent down to hold it in the hottest part of the flames. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She imagined flames everywhere, reaching into the sky amid the zillions of buildings in Tokyo. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The whole thing exploded into a column of flame many feet high,” said Bert. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the straw walls and roofs combust into yellow and orange flames, illuminating the red faces of girls running away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar gave Beowulf gifts, and the gifts were these: a banner of gold, a helmet that would not break, a sword as sharp as a flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain stopped, asphalt-baking machines droned over the course, licking flames over the surface to dry the soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lower my hands and open my eyes, and the flames dance before me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nearing the flames, he closed his eyes and leaped high into the air to breach. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Every time she flicked her whip, red flames danced along the barbed leather. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later, they burned a flaming arrow that would not quit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You get in there and answer that question for yourself, young man. I called you twenty minutes ago. Is our house about to burst into flames while we’re standing out here?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from an old flint and iron he caught a flame and thrust it into the straw and there was a blaze. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

With him cast as a Klans- man firing a young crusader, Mrs. Levy could really write a flaming broadside. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she disappeared in the wall of flames and her screams cut short. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The second shot belched out the barrel with a ball of sparks and a flame that lit up the front of the wagon. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Kindra, turn that flame down fore you burn the house down!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The women are supposed to wave palm leaves and chase the flames in toward the middle until all the trapped animals inside get completely nerve-racked and jump out through the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addison had crashed in flames, the trout no longer ringed the pool, and a cloud covered the sun and put a chill in the air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine drew a pipe from her pocket, and bent to light it in the lamp flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I would snuggle into Papa’s arms when harmattan thunderstorms raged outside, flinging mangoes against the window netting and making the electric wires hit each other and spark bright orange flames. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson seethed, and deep inside her, the hot speck of fury that had been carefully banked within her burst into flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The King folded his hands in his lap, seemed under his lowered lids to be looking on the flames. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Touch it. Put your hand over the flame.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few miles to the south, a swirling pyre of flames and black smoke was all that remained of the Zhang family mansion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even the flames of the candles seem unnaturally still. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

No one could match the fineness or colors of the widow's silver clouds, flaming flowers, or crystal lakes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bone ships drifted farther and farther behind us, until eventually they disappeared into the flames. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“There was a wife once, but it didn’t last. I seem to recall he had a flame for someone else. But that didn’t work out too well—he’s been a bachelor ever since.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Steady blowing soon coaxed a weak flame to life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A blue flame flickered at the base of his spine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you run fast with a small flame, it dies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like thirsty tongues, the flames chased the water as it ran and spread on the floor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But where there is much food, it grows and makes many flame children. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low-ceilinged sea-green room wavers with the flames and incense of a hundred candles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparks and flames erupted from the electrode tied to Mr. Evans's left leg. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mama had once caught Gerald playing with the lighter, and she made the fire come out and she held his hand right over the flame. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He remembered the white man’s face when he smiled behind the yellow match flame on that rainy night—and peace was in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A crackling orange sheet of flame filled the grate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind was gusting, making the flames shiver in the oil lamps that lit the yard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

White trees, black sky, red flames, everything was whirling, shifting, spinning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But, alas, he did not close his eyes, and the flame exploded around him and danced inside him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The burst of flames in the bush died down and smouldered to ashes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from many points little rivers of red flame came hurrying on, winding through the gloom, converging towards the line of the broad road that led from the City-gate to Osgiliath. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was flying at breakneck speed, trying to avoid a spurt of flames from Malfoy’s steed’s mouth, when he realized he had forgotten his Firebolt. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was nothing there now but a massive pile of twisted, flaming metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Blood and grease dripped down into the flames as two Stone Crows turned the meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Raised wooden side-walks caught fire and the wind drove the flames along at a brisk pace. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plane skidded for two thousand feet, severing an oil pipeline and snapping pine trees, before falling into a ravine and bursting into flames. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I think that must be a hallucination, because when I look into the furnace of the road up ahead, all I see is smoke and flames. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The book slipped to the floor and the world went up in flames. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was even a giant Christmas tree, sparkling with the flames of a hundred candles nestled on its branches. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flames vanished along with the cornucopia, and the chained statue of Ares crumbled into dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pig-meat into the invisible flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She saw the lighter flame being lowered to the lip of the lamp. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Younger women opened their pagnes and ran forward, fanning the flames like moths dancing before a candle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the windows on the outside wall, saw reflections of flickering flames just overhead. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did no one care that someone’s home was up in flames? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when the flame catches, I really do feel an atmospheric permutation. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The boy stood near the fire, his face still and hard, looking deep into the flames. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She took Lyra into the little kitchen and laid her on the draining board while Malcolm nursed the little flames. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The flickering flame made her look almost young. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But next moment Harry had begun to spin very fast, and the Dursleys’ living room was whipped out of sight in a rush of emerald-green flames. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But then he turned the lantern flame up high. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Fitela would have been burned alive if the flames had reached him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood with her hands pressed to her chest, not held out like she was about to make flame. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the social unrest turned violent; many houses went up in flames. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lit it up with a butane lighter that made a flame approximately as large as my middle finger. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even the stout cloth bindings caught light immediately, the linen turning black as the flames licked around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Lord will provide, he chants, then he takes off his shirt and begins to beat back the flames. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He dove inside and grabbed the wood and ran around the edge of the ridge, scrambled up like a cat and blew and nearly had the flame feeding, growing, when the sound moved away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me one of them buckets,” Papa cried out, shaking her arm loose, heading for the part of the line closest to the flames. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I picked up their lantern and smothered the flame. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We’re survivors he told her across the flame of the lamp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The icy thatched roof made a sizzling sound, and she realized it was already beginning to flame. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No. I think the court has custody. For the moment, at any rate. The mother is a remarkably beautiful woman, but not one in whom, shall we say, the flame of motherhood burns very brightly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A couple of Muses sat on a bench strumming flaming lyres, but their hearts didn’t seem to be in it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And of the flames that devoured her flesh. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It was both a shadow and a flame, strong and terrible.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Patches of flame still smoldered on the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Seconds ago, that candle had been quietly flickering in its gilded candelabra; now only the tiny flames flickering on the ground remained. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he coaxed the flames higher, his thoughts again focused on escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I kept certain books hidden in my locked trunk, reading them late at night by the flame of a candle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Leo’s hands tended to burst into flames when he was nervous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They continued until they got within a hundred yards or so—the singing was crystal clear and the shadows from the flames circled and flashed in the canopy of branches above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A blast of cold air blew through the hall, raising ashes from the fire trench and fanning its flames a little brighter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the rear chamber, Emma held her flame to the wall and showed me something I’d never noticed before: a long list of dates and initials carved into the rocks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The portal gaped, and a congregation of flames issued forth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Liza Hamilton, her apple cheeks flaming red, moved like a caged leopard in front of the stove when Samuel came into the kitchen in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lord of Light, we thank you,” she sang to the hungry flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He crouched over the flames for a long time, then practically burnt the soles off his shoes warming his feet. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flame inside me they wanted to keep lit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Behind her back I saw her hands begin to spread, white-hot flame tracing along each of her fingers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They sped toward the fire until they could see the flames blooming white and orange between buildings and over treetops. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the time the flames engulfed the wooden hut and licked up into open air, Cole had lost all control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The four Old Ones scattered hastily into the hall, where the strange blue-white cylinders still hung ghostly round the three walls, burning with their dead cold flames. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were even some wild centaurs in the mix, shooting flaming arrows and trampling their smaller allies under hoof. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was beautiful in his tiny ferocity and seemed happiest when flaming, his ruby eyes gleaming evilly. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the heat of the flames as he flinched back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The part in her hair flamed with sunburn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Far from them sit the Phoenix Riders already chosen for this year’s team, led by Asher Wing, their flaming red hoods and jackets prominent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This man will serve you faithfully. The flames do not lie, Lord Snow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he arose he stretched, glanced at her, and suggested, yawning, “Lets take the flame birds to town tonight to see an entertainment.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lit a second torch and ran its flame over his bare arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Far over the Great River, and the Brown Lands, leagues upon grey leagues away, the Dawn came, red as flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At first he thought they were afraid of the flame, but it was something more. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He passed his hands over the flames once, and then the woodpile was bare and cold, not burned at all. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then we were lodged within gray, the smoke thick around us, and we coughed and slapped at our eyes, scarcely able to perceive our own limbs; with the heat of the flames all about us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He raked sparks into the dish and it bloomed into flame with a low whoosh. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could brain her with a poker, thrust her face into the flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then President Snow, trying to use me to put out the flames of rebellion, only to have my every move become inflammatory. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Every time a door opened their flames would sway and shiver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That evening, her teeth chattering from cold, Kaede stood so close to the campfire that when the wind gusted, it sent flames dangerously close to her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of flames and death, I dreamed I heard a screecher calling. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I swung the kettle over the flames and looked into the fire while the water heated. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted some of the leaves closer to the low flames. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was this gusting, swirling wind that drove the flames from the O’Learys’ barn into neighboring yards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the orchid over in his hand and held up a firestarter, letting the flame lick into its mouth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“So,” he said, “we ourselves will be the candle flames.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Cursing, the king thrust the point of the sword into the damp earth arid beat out the flames against his leg. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When two more Luftwaffe aircraft began to chase them, Aleksandr escaped into clouds while the two enemy fighter planes collided in flames. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He threw wood on the fire and blew until it flamed, then banked the flames to last and went down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the writing upon it, which at first was as clear as red flame, fadeth and is now only barely to be read. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His wire spectacles reflected the lantern’s glow, as if the flame burned inside him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He did not tell Gandalf, but as he was speaking a great desire to follow Bilbo flamed up in his heart — to follow Bilbo, and even perhaps to find him again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One big stallion looked at me and whinnied, columns of red flame billowing out his nostrils. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It skidded through the grass, bursting into orange flame and whistling: WOO! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Legolas gave a great shout and shot an arrow high into the air: it vanished in a flash of flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Look for something we can use to pull the cooler out of the flames!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She stared through them, her face flaming, hoping none of them would ask her to dance. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Furies lunged, their whips bursting into flame. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn set Claire down and assumed a fighting stance, while Emma held out her hands to make a flame—but she was too stunned, apparently, to summon more than a sputter of smoke. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The flame flickered and swayed, the shadows moved around him, the room seemed to grow darker and colder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The stove spews out clean blue flames, unlike the ashy coals back home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I just know we set the fire. I can see the flames.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I also wanted to say that I was sorry for ...” I stalled at the thought of actually mentioning open flame in the Archives. “... for what I did before.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could picture going up in flames copies of Dickens, Stevenson, Zola, Doyle, Shakespeare and many others—donations by white liberals appalled by the state of black education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There they stood, stooping in a circle round the little dancing and blowing flames. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tottered to the fire with Anya and stripped off his coat to be closer to the flames. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’d already found a plastic box of butane lighters and he lit the lamp with one of them and adjusted the flame and hung it back up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A flame blooms inside the station— one of the trains must actually be on fire—and a thick, black smoke billows against the windows. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh—the air becomes charged with laughter until I can’t stand it—and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how far Emma would take this, but I had to step in before the birds went up in flames or were sent tumbling over the rail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The meats were followed by flaming puddings and bowls of wassail, chestnuts, and apples. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The fire was moving down them, closer to the second-floor landing, but the stairs going down to the first story were still clear of flames. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, the earth shakes violently as crackling yellow, orange, and red flames devour a neighbors hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his attention is removed from both these events as the empty chair across the circle bursts into flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The flame sputtered out in the murky water, and the sewer was thrown into sudden darkness. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the leaping flames of the town’s fires reflected in its huge eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A stream of flame jutted from the rest of the fire and toward his mouth, but he blew it back in before it went anywhere. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As I gave it all up, the trees unrolled their tongues of flame and blazed in approval. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished, he folded it slowly and looked into the flames. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood a long long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took some small wood and got the fire going again, felt some little comfort and cheer from the flames but also felt that he should get ready. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan thought that bursting into flame wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Those who battled at the Cornucopia, with their superior strength and surplus of supplies, they couldn't possibly have been near enough to spot the flames then. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When demonstrators set fire to a coffin as part of their protest, the firemen at the scene doused the flames and then turned their hoses on the crowd. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lighter flame flickered magically, making golden the purple shadows on the wall. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard burst into flames and his black eyes glowed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A boy holding a pencil between his hands, studying it with a terrifying intensity—the pencil bursting into flames. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I stood by and watched as everything Pike loved went up in flames. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were a flaming invitation to the Sun God not to abandon his children forever. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Now the boy stood watching as the flames ate their way up the heavy cloth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A shed attached to the barn was already engulfed by flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several minutes passed before Schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the black sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the kettle from the cold tap and held it over the flames. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fog was burning even as it boiled up, engulfing everything in a roiling pool of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Trying to read the shape of the future in its dying flames. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I realized who he was, my heart rose and fell and I considered going back inside before that flaming marshmallow could be weaponized. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As the flames grew brighter, Corbett could see his prey clearly. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced toward the kitchen, which the flames were consuming with glee, and headed across the living room toward Angel’s bedroom. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I used to start fires in the bowels of easterly Rock and stare at the flames for hours, pretending they were dragonfire. Sometimes I'd imagine my father burning. At other times, my sister." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Arm in arm they navigate the crowd, circling around the glowing bonfire that many patrons are still gazing at, mesmerized by the dancing white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Moon Girl reached into the flame, quickly turning the log deeper into the coals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gen. Gage issues passes for those who wish to leave, but many more are fleeing without, as we all predict bombardment and flame. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Primus was roaring away with a powerful blue flame and already the water in the saucepan was beginning to bubble. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the cannibal bending over his fire, the boy rushed forward and pushed him into the flames. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She lights a stick by the flame of the stove and walks from room to room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of us had a brave and fearful thought: to capture the flame, feed it a little, and make it our friend. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the steps there was a wall of flames. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes shot to a large tent entirely engulfed in flames, likely the original source of the fire. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It rose up out of the water in an explosion of smoke and flame and spray. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cast bubbles around Fyrian, and bubbles around the goats and bubbles around each chicken and a very large bubble around the house, lest she accidentally allow their home to burst into flames. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"It's not real flame, of course, just a little synthetic fire Portia and I came up with. You'll be perfectly safe," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Next time we shall visit some of the George III pieces and see if they burst into flame.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The tiny flame glowed as he lit the mouth of a Molotov cocktail. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fire, heat, flames...Lee woke up again, his body as hot as if he’d been lying in the desert sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya would watch him polish the metal with an oilcloth, shining it so bright you cculd sec the flames of die cookfire reflected in the steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he flung himself to the ground beside the flames, clawing and kicking. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It would be so easy for him to accidentally send Frank Zhang up in flames. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

These he threw in die shelter, went back for more, threw those in, and squatted to break and feed the hungry flames. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Tucker dumped what was left in the insulated bag down on the flames. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire raced up his arm and over his body until he was completely shrouded in a thin veil of flame. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fire was never allowed to completely die, and it took only a moment to blow the coals into flame. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spread the surface of the water with pure green flame. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below us, men shot downstairs five and six steps at a time, moving in the weird light of flash and flame in long, dream-bounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the flames, then fading away into the dark, he appeared and disappeared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Along-side the procession, slaves ran lightly through the grass with torches in their hands, and the flickering flames made the great monuments seem almost alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A fire was lit in a giant iron cauldron, and the certificates of 2,300 Indians were tossed into the flames—the first major act of Satyagraha. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The flames cut the cool damp morning, crackled and did much to bring his spirits up, not to mention chasing away the incessant mosquitos. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could not let the flames go out. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comal was propped above the flames on three rocks—a cooking method as old as Mesoamerican culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few pines along the edge of the wood had been scorched, but deeper in the damp soil and green wood had defeated the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And though the ginger already looked like little flames, she lit them on fire with her fingertips and blew them out properly, all in one go. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Gerald heard a loud whoosh and then he turned in terror to see the whole window covered with harsh red flames that crawled and licked and jumped along the windowsill. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oil came cheaper than bulbs, and the flicker of the flame made the dark dance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, he shook loose a smoke from the pack Bud had given him, set the weed in his mouth, and lit it—flame flared up before his eyes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella ran as fast as she could around the flaming house to the backyard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He didn't hear me at first because of the hammering and the roar of the flames. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the fourth side the nightfire roared, lashing at the darkening sky with swirls of flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We tried to reason with her, more to calm ourselves, to catch our breath, than to soothe her: “She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor woman . . . That’s why she speaks of flames devouring her. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw the flaming roll into the kindling and watched it light. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The van burst into flames and six people died. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames hadn’t done nearly as much damage to the back half of the Colored Orphan Asylum. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A can of a mothproofing material containing DDD, for example, carries in very fine print the warning that its contents are under pressure and that it may burst if exposed to heat or open flame. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The flaming hills of early October died abruptly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She watched until the delicate flames consumed the rag, watched until the blaze was hot and floating in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the closest bead of light moved nearer to Harry’s wand-tip, the wood beneath his fingers grew so hot he feared it would burst into flame. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wind came suddenly and fanned the coals into yellow flames; Leroy jumped back and stumbled hard against Pinkie. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the time we found the flame, we would lie back in the dark and look up at all the points of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above me the windows flicker with a different kind of light—flames, from candles or lanterns. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Henry took the box from her and struck one himself; it flared up high and strong and she leaned close to it, one hand cupped around the flame and the other resting upon his wrist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They still believed they could beat the Allies, even though we’d heard that the Russians had taken Warsaw and that Dresden was in flames. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame illuminated her hand stretched out: roused now, and on the alert for discoveries, I at once noticed that hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Emma closed her hand and the flame hissed out, and we all spun to see a man standing in the doorway, holding a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He held a pair of tortoiseshell lorgnette glasses to his eyes, to get a better look at the flames climbing the building’s walls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was squatting easily, comfortably, in the opening of the tent, the light flaming behind him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it sailed out to sea, the flames leaped up and wrapped it in fire. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I am not a man, Muggle,” said the cold voice, barely audible now over the crackling of the flames. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, like a flame rekindled, Jonathan saw the fear in his father’s eyes. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Turned low, the gas jets offered a subdued glow, their flames contained within unusual white fixtures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell him that, though, without fanning the flames of his pity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She stared at the top of the house, looking for flames. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the candle between us, feeling as if the flame has leapt inside me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people found themselves surrounded by flames and smoke and rushing headlong to escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny flame appeared, right there at the bottom of the Mississippi. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In time the flames began to dwindle, and then they were gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Raising the dust jacket with her finger, Meggie saw the dark red cloth, as red as the flames surrounding the ink-black heart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My father came only once, with blue flames curling from his eyebrows and tongue: Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then how about you, sweetheart,” he said, and Emma held a particular finger up and made a flame dance atop it like a birthday candle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Milo turned livid with indignation, his slim long nose flickering spasmodically between his black eyebrows and his unbalanced orange-brown mustache like the pale, thin flame of a single candle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wrote about the forest markets and stood often on the veranda, looking down the stretch of road, half expecting a mob of youths to rush toward the house with flaming torches. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could also see that, behind her back, Emma’s hands were now lined with flame. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Drowned Forest lurked like a silent cemetery, and when we rotated the raft to face the curtains of mist and flame beyond, my heart skipped a beat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sudden bursts of flame were easily avoided because, just before they struck, there was a deep kind of popping sound clearly coming from the vicinity where the flames would then appear. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Mechanical Hound leapt up in its kennel, its eyes all green flame. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben looked at the fire I’d laid out, then picked up a leaf, mumbled a few words, and watched a small flame flicker into life in the center of the twigs and tinder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Grown, they are death and devastation, a flaming sword above the world.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My face, since it was spared from the flames, presents no more than the usual challenges. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their faces were smeared with soot and full of horror, and not because of the flames that had been licking around Capricorn's house, for they had put those out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The hair on their foreheads fluttered and flames blew out sideways from the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s no Muslim,” they told Drew as we sat on cold sand watching the dying flames of a campfire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But as these flames licked at the shrouded body, it turned her stomach to see it eat away the cloth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His voice lowered to a hiss that merged with the lantern’s struggling flame. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When he could not, he gave a roar, twisted his head back as far as he was able, and spat golden flame at the wall behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a long piece of wood that was half in and half out of the roaring flames. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Sparrow,” she says, and her voice puts the flames out. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sit on the ground next to the chiminea, staring into the flames. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our mothers were the flames and we were the blaze. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Only the tops of the Gabilan Mountains flamed with the light of the sun that had gone from the valley. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The flames were mastering the branches, the bark was curling and falling away, the wood exploding. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His breastplate had a flaming heart inlaid above his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flames were burning low by then, the warmth fading. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The flames now were more impudent in their motion, and one street was impassable for them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Within moments, it fizzles out in a dwindling orange flame. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few spots burning on this side, but nothing like the galloping flame behind her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their beings were lit with an inner flame and, at the same time, the cold stillness of ice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even in the gloom, I can see her face flame red. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The knight writhes on the wet earth, the flames enveloping him like a dancing, burning blanket. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or holes in a skin through which the flame of power looks down on us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts his fingers in the flame of the lamp on the table. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Anything to keep her from messing with her flame powers again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If Teresa was right, and they’d been that close to figuring out some kind of clue to get out of there, only to see it literally lost in flames ... The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the dark with the flame between them they could see each other’s faces. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He opened his hand and there, in his palm, a flame danced for her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the smoke and flame died, and new marks were seared onto Frank’s skin: spqr, an image of crossed spears, and a single stripe, representing the first year of service. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A crimson cloak flamed from his naked shoulders. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He gazed up in horror at the flames coming out of the Mud House. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Once the buzzing stones got to the candles, they put the flame out quiet as a whisper. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Just when he thought Alec might’ve lost his marbles after all, the man suddenly made a sharp turn to the right, running parallel to the expanding fine of flames. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Some would surely make it out alive, but others would perish in their own homes and businesses as the flames spread. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Then the tree done the dangdest thing, Pap hit it so hard that it squeals and throws a ball of sparks and fire like it was ’bout to bust out in flame!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hus and Jerome, with the mitres of apostasy upon their heads, had flamed and fizzled at the stake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Measuring how quickly the flames were engulfing him, he hopped forward, the carbine in his right hand, the butt plate balanced against his hip. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke one of the Greek ships burst into flame. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not normal fire; Crabbe had used a curse of which Harry had no knowledge: As they turned a corner the flames chased them as though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The orange flames made the men and horses glow like demons. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I swear, I can see flames in his eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The flames were spreading toward the door, eating up that dry old wood in no time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After narrowly escaping the flames the night before, Joseph Chamberlin had gone to the North Division to watch the fire there. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I swiveled around, half expected to find flames crawling up the walls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In no time the building is in flames. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The fire crackled and sputtered, but the flame stayed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin’s hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Arriving at a bend in the embankment, we entered into the first warehouse there, a storehouse for some chandlery, and began setting it to flames, touching our brands to cordage and hogsheads. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Sarah Cohen had flaming red hair, the color of a penny in the summer sun. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Full of the pure, hard hatred of a child, I hoped he would burst into a pillar of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The current still flowed black and strong beneath, but the surface was a roil of blood and flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A brief chill spread up my arms and flame flickered to life along the rough edge of the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On another platform, a woman holds two long chains, with a ball of flame at the end of each. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Candles rest atop tree branches, flames flickering with the whoosh of dresses sweeping below. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley took a small drawstring bag from his pocket, untied it, took a pinch of the powder inside, and threw it onto the flames, which turned emerald green and roared higher than ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After I turn off the flame, I walk out on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A badly judged joke sends your connection with the audience down in flames. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The flames under the pot weren’t flickering; they were still, like paintings of flames. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bride’s cloak Sigom fastened about Lady Alys’s shoulders showed a bronze disk on a field of white wool, surrounded by flames made with wisps of crimson silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Crouched next to it, the bard and Gurgi fed twigs to the flames. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire devours books,” he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The giants disintegrated in twin columns of flame—a sure sign they were monsters, all right. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The candle flames stood straight and tall in the dark room, quivering only when the banging shook the chamber. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Those flames on her crown are the warmest thing about her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only occasionally, on cold nights when there was nothing but the flames to stave off his loneliness, did he think he heard them calling to him, but they whispered words he didn’t understand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He extended his arm, holding out the burning golden flame, and went toward the small pile of wood she had left on the forest floor, and set the pile alight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wind blew the fire so close to us that Chubs had to pat my jeans down so I wouldn’t go up in flames. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She clapped her hands together, snuffed the flame, and then stood up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A shadow going in and out, like a candle’s flame flickering in the breeze. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He put new wood on the fire, and they sat gazing into the flames a while. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were red eyre, homicidal, terrific, seeming actually to give out light They were like rubies filled with flame. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

My nightmare blinks away—flames, the city in flames, me and Uncle Bernard watching from the dining room window. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She landed on the pavement in the shadow of, almost striking her head against, the flaming rent-a-car. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames dissipated, and standing before us was a tall man in gray overalls and a metal leg brace, his beard and hair smoldering with fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each time, the colour and intensity of the flames were different. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He blew the flames to life and piled on the wood and sat with his legs crossed, leaning against the stone pier of the bridge. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine Erudite’s staring eye, Candor’s unbalanced scales, Abnegation’s clasped hands, and the Dauntless flames. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she was sure of the blue line of flame, she finished her sewing and started in on the last preparations for dinner. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was burning. Constantly. Sometimes just smoke and sparks, sometimes engulfed in flames. The way you are now.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Countless cheeses, breads, vegetables, sweets, waterfalls of wine, and streams of spirits that flicker with flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was the Baptist church, its steeple partly illuminated by the high flames of the bonfire. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes remained on Gaily, lying there, still; Thomas could feel the hatred pouring out, as if a visible line of flame connected them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I laid some heavier sticks on the fire and let the flames lick them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fires were still in places flaming red, guests were pouring out through the doors and Princess Noreena, hatted and faint, was being carried by her servants far from view. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When this boy, son of the captive Princess of Corniculum, awoke, the flames evaporated, leaving him unscarred; some years later, as this prodigious conflagration foretold, he was crowned King of Rome. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A pair of hands warms over flames, but I can't make out more than that. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If Kilvin’s demonstration was any indication, I guessed the whole shop could be a sea of flame and caustic fog in less than a minute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The candle flames, rising up stilly on the night air, were reflected from the golden lioncels which studded the deep blue canopy of the bed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hector only scowls, the flames of the bonfire further distorting his expression. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

People woke up to find fire at their windows, and ran from their doors howling warning, only to encounter the same flames everywhere, leaping and lapping, laying the countryside bare. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glowed red when she came out, blood clinging to her skin, which at that moment looked as though it were in flames. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The sword Dyrnwyn, blazing white with flame, leaped from his hand, and fell beyond his reach. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the plump, shimmering shapes of the candle flames he saw the ghosts of ten pigeons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The same way flowing water or a campfire’s flame can catch your eye and hold it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once she got her fingers moving she peeled off the wax, then grabbed the cauterizing instrument and held the sharp tip of it under the flame until it turned a painful shade of bright red. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The poor guy had just lost his grandmother and seen his house go up in flames. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not daring even to look at each other, Harry and Ron followed Snape up the steps into the vast, echoing entrance hall, which was lit with flaming torches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Piggy stood up and pointed to the smoke and flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He called for his soldiers to launch flaming torches to set the ships on fire. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the night, she had done the same with the golden faranji, standing right beside him while he did furious work in a laboratory of spurting flames and shattered glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A girl about nine years old was tending the flames, poking the coals with a stick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The tops of the trees around me are all burning, and through the smoke to my left and right, I see walls of flames surging forward, igniting bark on every trunk. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Stella could smell the sharp sweat of the heaving animals, the acrid kerosene that kept the flames bright. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Torches burned in sconces, their flames scorching the stone walls behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the fire had caught now, and the flames began to spurt up, green and orange, between the twigs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Heat lamps glow in regularly spaced intervals, their flames adding a golden warmth to our skin, and the lights of the city shimmer down below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they ran, they saw something shoulder its way upward: a spiral of flame. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A loud peal of laughter boomed and rang out in the valley of flames. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had once bought a girlie magazine, paying for it with trembling fingers—a dollar and a quarter, his finances shot down in flames until his next allowance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, within the flame of the tea candle again, you are on your bed crying into a piece of brown paper. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ned adjusted the flame and shined it in Jinx’s squinting eyes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her black eyes flamed up; she glowered at him as the elevator ceased descending and its doors slid back. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But they marched up like a phantom company, grey distorted figures in a mist, only dreams of fear with pale flames in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He dropped it on the table, walked again to the central fireplace, almost into it, and kicked the flaming logs and beat down the sparks with his hands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see her ponytail flicking in the wind like a brown flame. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They saw the flames tall and furious, they saw the roof fall and watched the fire die down as quickly as a twig fire dies. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feigning offense, Emma said, “Of course we’re performers,” and to demonstrate, she made a tiny flame on the tip of her finger and stubbed it out in her eye. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fire roared and the flames winked yellow behind the little isinglass windows in the front of the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dry wood caught quickly and the flames soon warmed my face and hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma India stood silent by my side as I fed the flame and spoke their names and forgave them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stands in the center, he looks from the Dauntless bowl to the Candor bowl—the orange flames that rise higher each moment, and the glass reflecting blue light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

By the end of August, the French colony was in flames. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was so cold and so glad to see the flames that he said nothing. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dumped out mugs of coffee, scuffed dirt over flames, and ducked into tents. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Edwin had stoked the flames into a bright blaze. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With a desperate yelp, Frank jabbed his firewood into a pile of snow and extinguished the flame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Misery filled me as a group of Midfolk hustled away from the flames and into the glowing night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tonight, the fire was only five feet high, barely warm, and the flames were the color of lint. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

How would you get out of a flaming glass pyramid where the windows don’t open? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The large man finally beat out the flames and the two of them began to make their slow way down the alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know the best way to go about it, and wasted several matches before he managed to coax the flames into life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I make myself stand and begin to limp away from the wall of flames that lights up the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now seeing the handwriting of the two in the consuming flames I burned my hand and slipped to my knees, staring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, too, would outlast the hard flames. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame gave a faint yellow tint to his frozen breath. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A flame burst from it into the night, and the girl stared into it and exhaled. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Harry saw that his family was intact, he dashed back into the smoke and flames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Thinking that I had probably asked a dumb, or worse, a wrong question, I coyly dropped my eyes and stared at the smouldering flames. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jagged bolts struck all around us, trees burst into flames, and deep crevasses appeared in the earth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

D flats and A sharps licking at her like so many tongues of flame, here behind the knee, up here on the neck, right below the navel . . . the inventory filled her with shame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even in the burning bam, with walls of flame tower-ing all around and him in chains, he had not seemed so distraught as he did now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The water did put out the flames, but it also made steam, which seared to sealing all that was left of the beautiful Hannah Peace. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It tottered, then collapsed in a flaring sheet of flame and sparks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It lit immediately, sputtered once when he breathed on the new flame, caught and flared up. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oil and flames were flung across the courtyard, and flowers of fire bloomed from the frozen earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

By now, Berlin was engulfed in flames, and 125,000 people were dead. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the flames coming out of Akivo’s silver boots. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, one by one, the flames gave up their colour and dropped, until at last there were none left—only a glowing heap, ashen-edged. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the stand the flames were lapping against the wood. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she heard me over the roar of the flames, but regardless, Fela understood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No — well, I was only one when they died,” said Harry, his eyes on the flame of the candle flickering in Hagrid’s heavy snores. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As the flaming Po-2 touched the ground, the searchlights came back on and caught a second plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flames in the brazier brightened, casting a silver glow over the room. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The flames spread as Davos watched, creeping out over ropes and sails until she trailed a head of yellow flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He kept pleading, “I’m on your side!” but his orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt didn’t help matters—nor did the warship overhead, firing flaming spears into New Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For a split second I’m gasping, completely engulfed in the strange flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With each bite her eyes began to glisten with energy, and, like a flame, she soon flickered and stood tall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Under their cover she made her way alongside a path lit by little guttering flames. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Cole reached camp, he jabbed the blunt end of his spear into the chest cavity of the fish and rotated it over the smoky flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Get the ham hock out, make sure you got enough water in there, that’s right. Now turn up the flame. See that little bubble there, that means the water’s happy.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The red priest rested by day but kept vigil through the dark horns, to tend his sacred flames so that the sun might return to them at dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before Dylan can answer, a ball of red flame bursts into existence between us. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As the other spears closed in, the dragon spat fire, bathing two men in black flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I moved to the mirror, guarding the flame, and lit the oil lamps that were set into the wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were still flames in some places, and their redness reddened his already blood-filled face. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was in shorts and a button-up shirt, his jacket charred from smothering the flames. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We had a sort of perpetual flame going in an urn...,” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was associated in his mind with flame; with fiery leaves in the autumn, and the fiery sun going down in the evening over the farthest hill, and with the eternal fires of Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I leaned out the window and saw it down the street, engulfed in flames. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, and Harry distinctly heard her mutter “Slave labor,” before bidding them good night and disappearing through the doorway to the girls’ dormitory. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue carried the wood they had collected in case the flames did not find enough to feed on among the stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I told Audrey she could go to Marcus’s party if she didn’t want to hang out with us, but she said she’d rather eat a flaming cockroach, which seemed a little dramatic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t that her mind wasn’t spinning with ideas—images of flames, of those stamping horses, wore sharp in her memory. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Metal crunched, glass shattered, oil spewed, and the hangings went up in a great whoosh of flame. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Cheeks flaming, she forced herself to look him in the eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I seem to recall he had a flame for someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sugar crystals sparkle under the orange glow of the flame. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The flame of the torch was nothing to them,- they had bathed in the heat of far greater fires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another bouquet of flames bloomed across the night sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took a step back, then another, though the flames’ heat beat against my back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The flame birds waited, like a bed of coals, glowing on the cool smooth sands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the dragon lighter steady as she lowered the tip into the flame. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had held a candle up there for hours, flicking the flame all over the ceiling, stopping often to move the table he was standing on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance the volcano began to shoot flames and smoke like a furious dragon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its slender towers twisted ever upward, frozen flames dancing as they reached for the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ash ran into the house and upstairs, down the hallway lit with flaming sconces and into her father’s room, where he lay in bed tossing and turning, the greenwitch chanting something unfamiliar yet unmistakably old. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of them climbed on the dactyl as the flames roared to life behind them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mustached man smothers Sasha’s flaming skirt with his coat while the balding man stamps out the burning tatters that flame around them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Alec had already started running straight toward the distant flames, which seemed to have grown in the moments since it had begun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Katniss, the girl on fire, has left behind her flickering flames and bejeweled gowns and soft candlelight frocks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the cool outside air from the hall rushed inside, the flames swelled and raged. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were watching a flaming tin roof in flight, we heard screams and loud banging a few houses away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We sat against the wall while the cook stoked the welcome flames of the breakfast lire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two days later, she bent to pick up a dropped spoon, only to find that her toes had begun to flicker like the dying flames in the hearth. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Despite my best intentions, the kindling wood caught hold of a spark and burst into flame. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to land on my feet in front of the castle, just clear of Leopardon’s flaming wreckage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the autumn the leaves flamed and rat- fled before the west winds, tempering their sad atheu with glory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Widget is waiting for them, holding a black paper bag and watching the vibrant white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His mother was rattling the stove to make the flames roar when Jody went through the kitchen. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would only add fuel to the flames.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sparks gushed into the air, and flames billowed out with a sound like tearing cloth; but cutting through this came another sound, dreadfully close and violent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With infinite caution Ranofer held the tip of the wire in the flame, blowing a light, steady stream of air through the pipe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Something else begins to fill me, though, an energy like the flaming heat of the sun—all 5,600 degrees Celsius of it—and I make a pact with myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would get word of her death—the ferry had sunk with her and my mother aboard, or more often the taxi had crashed and her lovely body had been consumed in the flames. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of it, sparks of flames leapt into the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The flames looked so real that Meggie touched them with one finger to make sure they weren't hot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a swift and furious struggle, all three of them, twisting in the air like scraps of flame, rose and fell and rose again, only to fall, finally, among the rocks on the far side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The flames danced defiantly, and at first it seemed that the hoses were no match for them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I pulled smoke and flame from outside the hallway and shaped it into a tall man. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Behind Father Cham, a gold statue of Buddha glowed in the light of dozens of little flames that danced on top of thin sticks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

With a ready flame he didn’t have to know how to make a spark nest, or how to feed the new flames to make them grow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea behind was a patchwork of black water and phosphorescent foam, and the last of the burning zeppelin’s flames were dwindling into nothing as it sank. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank twirled right through an elaborate candelabrum and burst into flames like some deadly firework. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They caught slowly at first, then burst into a cone of bright flame. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of tiny flames glowing orange in the dark just screamed mourning. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It struck around the 94th floor, and smoke and flames were immediately seen pouring from the building. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Same size; same flames licking up the sides; same smoke billowing out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hot, conical flame spurted from Auk XXI’s base as it accelerated off the pad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, the walls rippled, first becoming awash with cracking flames, then receding into the churning black waters of the Atlantic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the figure’s hands was reaching up, holding a ball of fire, as if it were stealing the flames from above, and the other hand projected light, like it was a film. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He constructed a cylinder containing a small amount of water, which he heated over a flame. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were no flames or demons in the room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firemage had conjured a ladder in the air, a crackling orange ladder of swirling flame that rose unsupported from the floor of the bazaar, reaching toward the high latticed roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The barn was already engulfed in flames, so Patrick and a group of neighbors began pouring water on the cottage. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It worked; between the warmth and the steady flickering of the flames, his eyelids grew heavy. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Dylan’s dragging her away from the flaming barrier. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I searched the skies for flaming comets, for that was how I pictured a cannonball would look. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wall was successful; there was no trace at all of flame or glow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Those lips will lead you into trouble, my pretty flame.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet high, a swirling demon of green flame danced upon the river. lt had a dozen hands, in each a whip, and whatever they touched burst into fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel very thankful, but I took my dinner, as was customary, up to the bronze brazier and scraped part of it into the flames. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to the fire department, our whole house would have been up in flames if they'd been called fifteen minutes later. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

These thoughts spiraled in Emily’s mind while she zoned out, watching Liam flick open his Zippo with a lit flame, then whip the top closed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bright yellow flame started flickering and dancing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later the County Clerk’s Office also went up in flames. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She swings them in loops and circles, leaving glowing trails of white light in their paths, moving so quickly that they look like strings of fire rather than single flames on lengths of chain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“By the red god’s flames, I warm her all her days.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the same motion, he turned away from the flames and ran toward the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He waited until the flames were shooting out of the window, then he began shouting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It fluttered a little and the flame bent down low, but still both ends burned strong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what she was hiding: mismatched legs, red eyes, fangs, and flaming hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Unlike eagles, humans could choose when and where to ignite a flame, and they were able to exploit fire for any number of tasks. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air grew hotter, until she was sure the entire world had burst into flames. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

A sarcophagus, engraved with Ancient Greek scenes of cities in flames and heroes dying grisly deaths. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The mysterious river Eridanus, which no mortal eyes have ever seen, received him and put out the flames and cooled the body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s my grandmother,” the girl said, voice hushed, eyes glued to the flame. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the shadow of the cowl, her eyes burned like pale red candle flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inside it a fire burns merrily, the flames bright and white, casting long shadows across the space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Going to have another go anyway, try a shallower descent. Still have quite a lot of fuel, don’t really want to crash and go up in flames.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore caught the piece of parchment and held it at arm’s length, so that he could read it by the light of the flames, which had turned back to blue-white. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Grainy scenes, but no less terrifying: grocery stores ablaze, smoke billowing from their rooftops, walls gnawed to studs by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pile of earth was too low to hide all the flames, so until dark I collected rocks, about brick-sized, for my wall. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know this will be a difficult task, since anyone Peeta shares childhood memories with would most likely be from town, and almost none of those people escaped the flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It would have been entirely unremarkable had it not been full to the brim with dancing blue-white flames. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wind alone came in, struggling with the weak flame in the coal-oil lamp. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cupped one hand around the flame of my candle to be sure it didn’t blow out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling, the girl reached out her hand, held it well above the flickering candle flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A hot yellow flame jumped into life, and I watched her suck it up into the cigarette. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I lie on my stomach at edge of the pool for a while, dangling my hands in the water, examining the little flames on my fingernails that are beginning to chip off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In one of the angel’s hands was a sword, glinting in the sunlight, and in the other hand was a lantern, burning a small flame. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I needed something that could hold a flame, some kind of pilot light. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames had bitten his nose and his lips, yet Dustfinger kept finding him making torches of cotton wool and thin twigs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The rage was gone, and it was like some flame had gone out with it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the flame flares up, my heart thumps like a plumping mill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to be there in a half hour and you smell like kerosene. If they light candles you’ll go up in flames.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As he looks up at the flames, he is certain, too, that they are going to die. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The flames are now surging across the road, completely blocking my path. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Flame,” he cried, “feed them flame,” but there was no one to pay heed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly flames erupted from the tower at a point about fifty feet below Fitzpatrick and his men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We hurried through the gate so we wouldn’t be late to Mr. Nossik’s class and fan the flames of hatred for all things Cade Hernandez so early in our week of freedom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She took a minute to warm her body by the flames, and then she began the repairs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You were counting on that, eh? It is true I do not like fire. But Leo Valdez's flames are not strong enough to trouble me.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once again, she took her copy of the Instructions from her pocket and consulted it, holding it in the light of the flame. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With every step, those blisters flame, and she lets them, because there he is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Chasing flames that passed hungrily over the startled grass, leaving nothing of life behind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interspersed among their ranks were a dozen battle forklifts, their sharpened tines gleaming in the sunset and flaming bolts nocked in their crossbows. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I recognized the flaming orange shade of the paper: it was the sheet Mrs. Port had sent home with her few remaining students days before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant and his men broke down the front door, laid down their hose, and then, as firemen say, “charged the line,” dousing the flames in the kitchen with water. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We could even provide entertainment. You could sing and I could, like, randomly burst into flames.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the only light they carried, and its flame was small, just enough for them to find their way. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke— suggesting she has either just been extinguished or is about to burst into flames—rise from her clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When Rhaegal roared, a gout of yellow flame turned darkness into day for half a heartbeat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From time to time, they could even smell the smoke, though the wind held steady and the flames never got any closer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had been staring at the flames, going over the events of the night before, until she’d spoken, and he was suddenly back in the present. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She thought she understood when she saw the flames. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was something greenish about the flame, something that made her spine straighten. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I looked at the fire, I saw a little girl in a brown dress tending the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Melisandre’s face darkened, “TTiat creature is dangerous. Many a time I have glimpsed him in my flames. Sometimes there are skulls about him, and his lips are red with blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knew it would just fan the flames. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames on the thatched roofs waved us off as they danced with the afternoon breeze, swaying as if in agony. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Years later, a reporter described how he’d still pace before a fire “like a leashed animal. He nervously rubbed his hands into the flames. His rather ruddy face was aglow with cold and excitement.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hand around my lighter to protect the flame from the slight breeze and lit up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

From across the dark field, the trailer’s windows glowed, beckoning me as if I had no more willpower than a moth drawn to a candle’s flame. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

With the flames and fear behind them, Gerald and Angel rode together to the music of the sirens which had decorated their past and would forge their future. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to throw flames from my eyes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And yet . . old as he was, Cressen had never seen a comet half so bright, nor yet that color, that terrible color, the color of blood and flame and sunsets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He put the skillet down next to the flame. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turns the flame way down and stands there stirring the eggs in the pan forever, but when they finally cook, they’re delicious. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They danced as the flames consumed them,- they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers bright as torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly a thought came: The stars are flame, I thought. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think back to the flames that consumed my house on the night of the raid. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the skin fell, the night sky would be bright—too bright—like seeing flame everywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the image of my grandmother lying helplessly upon her bed and there were yellow flames in her black hair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan says a series of strange words and his hands erupt into silver flames. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her voice had turned dangerous, like something that could burst into flame and peel the roof off the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With her flaming red hair, she seemed like a true fox demoness who would delight in tricking humans. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself staring at Sana’s tattoo, and my stomach lurches at the sight of the fist and flame. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With flames consuming the compound at an alarming rate, the captain made a judgment call. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment it seemed to the eyes of Legolas that a white flame flickered on the brows of Aragorn like a shining crown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ted Hall saw the flying green flame from his spot in the truck. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames from die yard fire were licking the blue cotton dress, making her dance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another enemy warrior shot flaming arrows into the trees, sending our archers and dryads into a panic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, as my entire family stood on the sidewalk across the street, the fire department and paramedics showed up while flames shot through our roof. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The boy was clad in Baratheon gold and black, with the flaming heart of a queen’s man sewn above his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Festus whirred in alarm and blew flames into the night sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed to reach through her—within her—and smothered the flame of that desire until all that remained was a hard, hot little ember. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What if God sent it up in flames? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Like a whipping with a lash of flames. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronn had carried him the rest of the way, and the humiliation poured oil on the flames of his anger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knelt there, stunned, watching the flames consume them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a Persian love poem. ‘This flame of love set my heart on fire. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They could see the blue flame of the other aircraft’s exhaust, and it cheered them up to know they weren’t alone in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We looked off to one side of the flames, about a mile away, and saw a black shape in the water, very low. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a windless night; the flames would burn quietly and steadily. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The mist rose from her pale flesh, and for a moment it seemed as if pale, sorcerous flames were playing about her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flame that issues from its nostrils is a brilliant blue and can reduce timber and bone to ash in a matter of seconds. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut and bleeding she clawed the air trying to aim her body toward the flaming, dancing figure. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They swung the cauldron on the fire’s heart, poured water in, and fed the blaze beneath until the basin simmered, cupped in flame. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the low gate and turned down the long, silent, flaming street. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Guy asked with a flame in his eyes brighter than the lighter’s. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I can’t even type “hello” to this girl without bursting into flames. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Boyle, for example, could place a lit candle in his globe, or a bird; although insects and frogs could be passed through the mercury into the Torricellian space, flames and birds could not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We drove back and—oh, dear!—the first thing we saw was the flickering of flames. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the searing flames surged and rolled higher along the sides of the shelter, his laughter grew hysterical. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As Fd sprinted across the rooftops, the flame on the shingle had gone out, leaving a thin line of red ember along the edge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once the flame appeared so near the road, that even in the darkness around us I could watch the driver’s motions. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And so he sat through a long part of the day, keeping the flames even, eating from his stock of raspberries, leaving to drink from the lake when he was thirsty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair burst into flame and her legs turned to their true form—one donkey leg, one bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window, and the panic-stricken passengers, choking from the dense cloud of smoke, escaped through an emergency exit seconds before the bus burst into flames. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flickers of gold-orange flames were visible, and even several yards away the acrid stench of smoke and burning grass stung his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And now the flames reached her Drogo, and now they -were all around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But he did not want to risk trying to make it flare into flame now, not with this trial and the words of hate from Buckley. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes moved immediately from a flaming pink flower in the bottom left to a strange storm brewing in the top right. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He took a torch and moved into the plastic city and with the flame touched the walls here or there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her is a large circle of blank screens, like moths circling a flame. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The blossoms on the flame trees were about to burst open. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the flames made them glow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Harry helped George carry the trunk forward into the flames and turn it onto its end so that he could hold it better. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She held a candle, shielding its flame from the draught with her hand; and the light flowed through it, like sunlight through a white shell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Arcs of fire streamed in both directions as flaming arrows and spears sailed through the air. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She knew that her cheeks were flaming, but she held her head high under the feathered bonnet. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The blistering flames rising above the house were just waving goodbye to everyone who was watching. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As his shroud went up in flames, I hoped Ethan knew he had made a difference in the end. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When he ran to the door he saw the barn enveloped in flames that leaped far into the sky; hay, grain, wagon, harnesses, and plows were feeding them, and they were hungry. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the roofs and then the interiors of the surrounding structures were consumed by the flames, a scorching wind swept around the alley. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the midpoint of the division, a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out fire, hot coals, and sparks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lights her cigarette, the flame catching easily despite the dampness of the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From out of the shadow a red sword leaped flaming. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another match was struck; the candle was lit again, and Gregory held it up so that its flame illuminated a massive, towering, teetering pile of spoons and kettles and soup bowls. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the steps, where a line of men in ornate armor and orange cloaks stood before the temple’s doors, clasping spears with points like writhing flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sighed and raised a hand: a blue flame flickered about her fingers for a moment, and then, as she lowered her hand and bent down to touch her chariot, the fire vanished. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We rode through the moonlight with the flames of Ormaie behind us, and neither one of us stopped crying until we put the bicycle away. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There’s Mom’s car bursting into flames as it busts through the sky. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the vision I touch the statue’s face and flames start swirling around us. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Though he was held away from the fire itself, the heat was so intense that Encanis’ clothes charred black and began to crumble without bursting into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Through the flames she could see the huntress singing, her face glowing in the red-gold light. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be a sound like a thousand forests turning to flame, and the air itself will begin to burn. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She remembered her mother, dressed in a paper crown and red velvet cloak, blowing kisses across the flames to her father, dressed as a joker with gold and silver baubles hanging from his cap. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid a dry pinon branch on the coals; smoke curled out of the gray scaly bark like woolly hair until yellow flames burst around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house gave ground as the fire in ten billion angry sparks moved with flaming ease from room to room and then up the stairs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He coughs as what feels like the flames of hell run down his esophagus through his chest and into his stomach. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The stove was warming, with orange light showing around the lids and the soft thunder of drafty flame leaping past the open damper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if her words were an invitation to prove her wrong, the wind whipped around them, ruffling Shae’s short hair and making the flames roar. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over his right shoulder a girl stared at me with one round, dark eye, her long hair draped around her face, flickering in tandem with the flames of the large fire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the drums reached a crescendo, three of the girls leapt above the flames, spinning in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I come awake slowly with my body on fire, consumed in flames. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the flames died down, I thought I could still see their glow reflected in his blue eyes, the memory of fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, he heard a loud impact as the plane hit the other side of the South Tower, sending an explosion of wreckage and flames straight through the building and out the north side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then from a secret place Juana brought a little piece of consecrated candle and lighted it at the flame and set it upright on a fireplace stone. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled it over them and turned and lay holding the child, watching the blue flames through the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was as though someone had said, “Whatever you do, don’t think about that stick bursting into flame!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I gave her a nice mangrove snapper that I caught, and she had it cleaned and cooking over the flames in five minutes flat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I slid down the flaming banister, holding tight with my blanketed elbows and legs, the wool clenched together with my teeth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The firefighters were already engulfed in a wave of withering heat, and the flames were reaching out toward them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun felt like a flame brought too close, and yet it was drizzling and the lukewarm raindrops mixed with her sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The flames hit the fat and the bird almost ignited. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the brave little wizard—ignoring his own great peril—ran into the smoke and flame. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t he know popular people are covered in flame retardant? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But then someone asked CaptainOverpants if he could verify his claim and he said no, and then a bunch of people started jumping on him for fanning the flames of rumors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Still chortling, Fudge had thrown some powder into the fireplace, stepped into the emerald flames, and vanished with a whooshing sound. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth threw her flaming torch to the other side of the chasm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had been heaped together before being set on fire, so he dug through with his hands, to see if the flames had missed any underneath. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I enter her room, she stands at her dresser, idly passing a dagger through a candle flame. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He lit the first one now and led the way down into the dark, holding the pale flame up before him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was gloriously warm after the pool and the forest, the only illumination the bluebell flames still shimmering in a bowl on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glowing, the reflection of a tiny flame dancing in each one. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had not felt the wand spin like the needle of a compass and shoot golden flames at his enemy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

How could one think of supper when the world had just gone up in flames? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the flames trailed what looked like dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He forces his horse through the flames and wakens Brynhild, who gives herself to him joyfully because he has proved his valor in reaching her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular manuscript escaped the waves and the flames, but evidently fell into the hands of the fishermen, for part of it has disappeared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a fire blazing in the hearth; the flames leaped up in long orange tongues, and the logs crackled and sputtered. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He hung for a moment, his armpit against the spar, and knew that his light was futile against the fog; nevertheless he adjusted the flame higher before clambering down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The forks of flame, met by air, earth, and a great flood of water, had no chance to get out. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put more wood on the fire, as it was damp in spite of the flames, and went to bed in my underwear and suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t be surprised if you start flinging flaming squirrels on level seven.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A man entered with a white light flaming about him, a great bright figure who spoke aloud, fiercely and suddenly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guy in the Nazi parachute screamed as he floated down in flames and landed in the water with a loud hiss. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red, gold and violet flames shot out from the sides of the engine, slicked back in paint along the thorax. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not much could be seen on the other side of the channel; bursts of flame that illuminated only smoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Raising the lantern, the man held it close enough that Jemmy could feel the heat of the flame. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky and its clouds are made of melting cherries and flaming oranges and burnt grapefruit as the sun sinks into the sea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Blue flames shoot from two cylinders attached to its base. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes flash from the model to the flames across the hall to Volkheimer’s rifle leaning against the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The thread tugs harder, and I stoke the flame with names. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The flames had a slow, watery movement, rolling up into the air like ribbons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These moth ideas were difficult to fix in my head, and the flames devoured them before I could focus on any one long enough to see it clearly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I woke coughing with everything in flames around me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the flames rushed up and Hercules was seen no more on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he passed each one, the flames died. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hecate’s finger crossed her miniature Apennines, leaving a glowing white line in the red flames. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was only a small flame, but it cast glints of light on the tunnel walls and the silky surface of the water. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took off in the mightiest roar ever witnessed at Cape Coalwood, tearing out of a caldron of flame and smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The small flame of hope that each of them cherished began to flicker and fade. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But even as Riddle rounded on Dumbledore, the flames vanished, leaving the wardrobe completely undamaged. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As Cole stared into the flames, he found himself crouching like a wolf. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I don't have the skills to keep enough H2 flowing to feed a flame without killing myself. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the goose gazed into the flames and told the story of his winter. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you can truly see the morrow in your flames, tell me when and where the next wildling attack will come.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They sat again, looking into the flames; until Guenever turned to her husband. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stoked the fire, and as the flames leapt up she remembered the bonfire, and the dancers, and the look on the huntress’s face. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds the flame up to the bill. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Will they turn on one another with flame and claw? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hunched on a bench in the hallway, she looked like a guttering candle, its flame buffeted by the wind. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A grand piano stood tightly shut, with a candelabra above, no candle ever touched by flame. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before Gandalf could hinder him he thrust the brand amid the fuel, and at once it crackled and roared into flame. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The gas ignited, and flames spread quickly into a steady blaze that crept over the boxes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The flames flicker, making the deep shadows on the stone walls dance drunkenly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As smoke filled the room and the bartender struggled to put out the flames, we lowered ourselves down one after another and disappeared. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Instantly, the end of the stick burst into flame. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One moment the flames burned orange and yellow, filling the cavern with a ruddy glow; then all the colors faded, leaving only black and white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stared into the flames, which reminded me about helping my mother with the cooking and made me cry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One thousand. Never more, and never less. A new flame is kindled for every one that gutters out.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes, says slowly, “When people fall in love, they burst into flames.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You saw our—” I cough and sip some milk, dousing the flames in my lungs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort’s was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her footsteps ignited with flame as she ran through the blackened flowers, like stabbing a poker into a slumbering fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

During this time, the government took another action that added fuel to the flames. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the furnaces were made differently and the flames that flared through the cracks of the fire chambers were too intense and too blue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After parachuting out of a flaming plane, how can anyone have such presence of mind? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A clay jar of Greek fire broke on the floor and began to burn, green flames spreading quickly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sat gazing at the fire, whose flames winked, reflected, from his tankard and from the broad bright silver chain of office over his shoulders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I wrote above, none of us can know the mind of the kid who lit a flame to Sasha's skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The flames here were both tame and mutinous, strange, silent beasts that sometimes bit the hand that fed them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another sphere contained a wick hanging in empty air from a silver wire, burning with a motionless white flame despite its apparent lack of fuel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His flame lit the pit, pale gold shot through with red and orange, and the stale air exploded in a cloud of hot ash and sulfur as the white wings beat and beat again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Barry had worked for three hours on those flames, mixing orange and red and yellow with a bit of blue until they looked like they would burn your fingers if you touched them. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its gas tank had flames painted on it, and a shotgun holster riveted to either side, complete with shotguns. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not because I’d been hit, I discovered later, but because I’d successfully managed not to go down in flames over Angers, and had safely delivered them their 500 pounds of Explosive 808. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With a shout, I jump to the back of the elevator just as flames reach it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Everything stings, but it isn’t the active sort of flames. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Removing her gloves, she walked over to the kitchen stove to warm up her hands in its low flame. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now a great whirlwind of flame rolled up from the plains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Most stood by watching the yellow-orange flames leaping from roof to roof and listening to the horrible crackle pop of dry pine being consumed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

"When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane. There were flames coming out of it." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One cold morning in mid-December, Richard and I are working with the embers that are all that is left of our cabin’s fire, trying to bring them to flame. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His stars are different from the ones in the Bible: they’re wordless, they flame in an obliterating silence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My brother, the revolutionary weirdo, has covered himself in flame retardant, to use his terminology. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Fear flickered on their faces like a hungry, growing flame. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emma said, her flame sending a little pulse of sparks skyward. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how hungry he was, so he held the hot dog in the flames to cook faster. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The flames were so beautiful, the loveliest things she had ever seen, each one a sorcerer robed in yellow and orange and scarlet, swirling long smoky cloaks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His sneakers are still smoking—the flames had been that close to him—but now the fire has retreated about a dozen feet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He watched, trying not to betray a flicker of surprise or alarm, as a portly man appeared within the flames, spinning as fast as a top. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next moment, a tongue of flame shot into the air, a charred piece of parchment fluttered out of it — the whole room gasped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Far below, she saw the light of a single torch, small as the flame of a candle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dad also thought I should face down my enemy, and he showed me how to pass my finger through a candle flame. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A second piece of parchment shot out of it, propelled by the flames. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Lemos remembered feeling the heat of the flames on her back as she urged her parents and children along. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The flames of the burning shelter rumbled like a freight train and sucked at the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Emma scooted close and lit the tiniest wisp of flame on her fingertip to read by. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She blew last night’s coals into a flame and hauled a large pot to the fireplace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched the flame with the head of a torch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As Cole stared into the flames, he thought about the wolf. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

These thoughts spiraled in Emily’s mind while she zoned out, watching Liam flick open his Zippo with a lit flame, then whip the top closed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The flames started to lick quickly up the dry wood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I stoked up the barbecue and threw the food into the flames as a burnt offering for Artemis and Apollo. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She saw a roof go up, flames licking at the belly of the night with hot orange tongues as the thatch caught. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Red hibiscus that iguana like to eat are small flames, and trees with flower petals falling with every light breeze makes me feel like I’ve stepped into another world entirely. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the same time it continued to boil, forming thick, low clouds, dark as tar, caustic, and ready to burst into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Crisp, striking, vivid, you couldn’t miss her—a bull’s-eye in the room, a crackling flame. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Oxygen makes embers burst into flame, while carbon dioxide snuffs them out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Blades of grass and a pradeep’s slim, steady flame are held to Gogol’s head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black schools were ordered closed indefinitely; that is, those that hadn’t yet gone up in flames. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richmond had still been in flames on the morning of April 3, when the Union troops arrived. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to need all the training you can get,” he promised, as we were working with swords and flaming torches. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was scorched black where the flames had passed. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

If they were good, a small blue flame would still be burning at the bottom of the glass when they slammed it down on the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dying flames looked like they were coming from under the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the Wart looked round the busy kitchen, which was coloured by the flames tiff it looked like hell, with sorrowful affection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Chamberlin had retreated several blocks in the face of the advancing flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on the open stove door, watching the yellow flame change shape and turn to blue and red. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arched eyebrows, the wicked grin, the flames in the eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

More comfort, but like the comfort of die flames it didn’t work with this new threat that he didn’t understand yet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foot-high words had been daubed on the wall between two windows, shimmering in the light cast by the flaming torches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He fed small twigs to the flame, crossing them and recrossing them until the fire was full, healthy. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had he missed when he threw the at.oow into the flames? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He stood up, and it looked to Sam as if he was clothed in flame: his naked skin was scarlet in the light of the lamp above. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The flames grow steadily higher, staying close to the chair, licking around the wood, though it does not appear to be burning. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The leg jerked as though a live flame had been put to it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame came back as Shorty, with a thick towel, started drying my head, rubbing hard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks toward it on this chilly evening through the French countryside like a moth to a flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The flames were so high I couldn’t see to the other side, let alone guess how thick the wall of fire had become. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It didn’t put out the flames, just sent it spinning down the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole crossed from the tent to the fire and fed wood quickly onto the flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I half expected her to go up in flames. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping an open flame in his room terrified him, but it also helped him focus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Francie would never forget the flaming red hair and the golden voice of Bernhardt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can have no priest who has golden idols before him, God answered, and the flames roared and consumed everything. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes after his crossing, the bridge caught fire again, only this time, the flames could not be put out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Celia sterilizes the bird over a flame and watches the puckered skin blacken and curl. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and then flicked the lighter and swung the flame out over the darkness like an offering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On his head was the helmet that would not break, at his side the sword as sharp as a flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair on her arms rose as she watched the flame of her candle bend forward, pointing to a darkness that seemed blacker than all the rest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, I can smell it,’ said Frodo, but he did not move, and his eyes remained fixed, staring out towards the dark line and the flickering flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The flame keeps us warm on cold nights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there was no warmth, and yet he remembered flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He just stared straight ahead at the fireplace, like he was waiting for it to flame on. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fireball hits a tree off to my left, engulfing it in flames. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As flames exploded outward, the massive steel and glass structures faltered and Zafoona closed her eyes and turned away. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Is it possible that the flame was for Gram? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were already at the window, looking out at the burning cabin and farther, down the path into the marsh, now lit up by the flames coming from the fire. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I should have looked for the book on my own,” he said, passing a finger through the bright flame. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But it was his comfort with racial mixing in social situations that really fanned the flames. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The gilded Statue of the Republic rose before me, set alight by the setting sun until it glowed as brightly as the angel Dumah’s flaming sword. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A living cell, like a flame, burns fuel to produce the energy on which life depends. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tossed it into the hellhound’s maw, and the creature went up in flames. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another triggered a trip wire, and pots of Greek fire exploded into green flames, engulfing several of the snake women. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He moved through the pictures faster and faster as he came to the burning theatre, and the flames, the terrible flames, that filled the paper completely. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A great nuzzling gout of flame leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its scales glimmered in the sun and flames licked from its mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Jon slid his new dagger from its sheath and studied the flames as they played against the shiny black glass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The heat from the flames melts the surrounding snow and a black trickle runs across my shoes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A beaming Fred stood before them, wearing a set of magenta robes that clashed magnificently with his flaming hair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Joe’s torch was huge and bright as the tip of one curtain in the window touched the flame. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a crown of red gold with points in the shape of flames, a twin to that worn by Stannis. “... you may rise, Lord Snow. This is my daughter, Shireen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Why, with the tent getting fulled up with the buzzing of ten stones and the flames getting snuffed out one after the ’nother, ’twas a sight I’d’ve paid one of my own dimes to see! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank goodness it did not spread to the woods,” said the Abbot, “otherwise all of Mossflower might have gone up in flames.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His jacket and pants blend into the night, but his bright persimmon cravat burns like a flame in the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When we reach downtown, people dressed in black are parading solemnly through the streets: nuns carrying crosses; men and women holding candles, the tiny flames lighting up their faces eerily. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, she thought, now, and for an instant she glimpsed Khal Drogo before her, mounted on his smoky stallion, a flaming lash in his hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My stuff. Now. Or I’ll show you how funny a flaming dwarf is.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the other end, Sally is putting the finishing touches on a dessert she’s brought, intently assembling layers and covering them with glistening white meringue that shoots up like a dense thicket of flames. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Summer was snarling and snapping as he danced around the closest, a great ruin of a man wreathed in swirling flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time the principal steps up to the podium to begin the awards ceremony, my entire face has flamed red from my lies. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The heat from the flames rises around me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

By his command, they'd risked no open flames since entering the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lantern flames make spots of light and dark move over his face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all only 120 bodies would be recovered, though officials estimated that nearly 300 people perished in the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a terrifying moment, I expected a second figure to emerge from the darkness—Yakov striding forward, cloaked in the same flames that had scarred him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His sons took up five-tined forks in their hands, while the altar flame ate through the bones, and bits of tripe went round. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he did, a pot of wildfire burst overhead, spraying green flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the night of May 10, 1933, in many German cities, university students and Storm Troopers carried flaming torches and marched behind trucks and oxcarts filled with banned books. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every tree is ablaze—but just beyond the sheet of flames, I see something sparkling—twinkling—in the firelight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drying her hand inside her coat, Emma was finally able to make a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He waited until flames licked high into the night air, then stood and approached the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny red flame on the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flickering flames of a pitch pot threw wavering, grotesque shadows upon the walls. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Leo got an idea so incredible that his nose burst into flames. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of the white cottage in flames, his memory of Dallben’s beard, and the heroic Coll’s bald head touched him all at once. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The flames licked out to the gas on the kitchen floor and streaked across to the wooden farmhouse cabinetry and Gran’s cheery dish towels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But Gwenforte bolted forward, past the palace guards, and into the smoke and the flames. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We kept a bin of driftwood twigs nearby, perfect kindling that caught easily when I lit the paper and blew gently on the flame. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The fire went down for a moment, as if crouching in surprise, then the flames shot up taller than before. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ball of orange flame bounced next to Tally, cool as an autumn wind, driving away the darkness around her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In such places my spirit lifted to the sight of the drifts of white clover or the clouds of purple vetch with here and there the flaming cup of a wood lily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even now I can see the flash that ignites her, feel the heat of the flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He cupped his hand over his thing as if it were a flame that might blow out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Once alone, she thrust the note in the flames, watching the parchment curl and blacken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The flames flickered in his one brown eye, and one green. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like this horse had a saddle and harness that sparkled—like it was catching the reflection of the flames,” Stella said, trying to remember. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My next job is to figure out where I can build a fire, either by day so he will not see the smoke, or by night so that he will not see the flame. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Katherines confidence and the bright flame of her mind were irresistible to the guys in the Flight Research Division. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He sliced a hand through the air, and the flames from beneath one of the beakers shot out in a blue arc. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime and we sat by the fire stretching our arms toward the flames as we listened to stories and watched the moon and the stars retire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the villagers lit the flames on the stake to burn her alive, I reached in and saved her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She plants her hands on her hips, and now she’s staring into the flames as though searching for something. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I lunged but Bull Number Two blew flames at me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Fan,” he corrected, feeling like his entire face was about to burst into flames. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stare at the flames wrapping around the fragments of wood that fuel them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he suggested that a firebreak could be created to contain the flames if several houses were blown up, thus depriving the fire of fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen she took off the apron and put it in the stove and poked the coals until a flame sprang up on the cloth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of that picnic, watching the distant flames leap up to the sky and blank out all the stars in red flame and oily smoke, she had laid her head on his shoulder. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It seems to him that the lights in the red room have been dimmed, and the sole illumination comes from the candle, which burns with a bright flame. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And as Metatron raised the bloody stone high, a golden-furred shape sprang up like a flame leaping to a treetop, and the monkey sank his teeth into the angel’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or was it just a stray ember from the flames? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On a good night, I'd seen it twenty feet high, bright purple, and so hot the whole front row's marshmallows burst into the flames. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

From most of them you could see the flames dancing above Sparrows Point’s furnaces and the eerie red smoke pouring from its smokestacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Castles are harder to burn, I guess, but dragon flames make a really good picture in a storybook. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a soft hiss as the black waters quenched the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its tall steeple was a pyramid of fire, the flames licking the undersides of the clouds that scuttled above. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colony of thin candles stands in the sand, a few of them flickering with yellow flames. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She held it to the candle and watched the smoke curl up, until the last of it had been consumed and the flame was licking at her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday, in the midst of the heat and the flames, Stella Mills showed absolute bravery and courage as she ran toward the fire to rescue little Hazel Spencer.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sunset flares behind a row of brownstones, linking them as if by a flaming ribbon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, a bright flame gushed out, and a team of bears swung into practiced action. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Momma and Aunt Pam work the stove as skillets full of bacon and eggs sizzle, blue flames dancing beneath them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She will either reach the water, or the flames will consume her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The heavy paper curled and blackened, the flame ran upward, and only when the fire was about his fingertips did Cal drop the charred chip in the pin tray. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little flames danced on the faces of the neighbors. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should go to the fabric store and pick out something really cool! You could do flames or flowers or just a solid, like hot pink!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He’d carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he’d pull for us from the tandoor s roaring flames. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were delicious, but it was the flames that transfixed him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“When we left the flames were still confined to the west wing of the building.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like my face is on fire and nothing can put out the flames. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We need to look inside the flame in order to understand the—Young lady. No flying in the classroom.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Robert, addressing Mrs. Pontellier, continued to tell of his one time hopeless passion for Madame Ratignolle; of sleepless nights, of consuming flames till the very sea sizzled when he took his daily plunge. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Melisandre’s fire was shivering; the flames huddled down in the ditch, crackling softly as the red priestess sang. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frozen with fear, I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cold air that rushed in gave Gerald the fresh breaths he needed, but it also fueled the anger of the flames in the apartment and in Jordan Sparks. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged a large green log over the flames. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His spell lit the corridor with a sudden flaming light. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes travel up to where the flames licked across his forehead, singeing away his brows but just missing his eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The snake hissed, flames billowing from its mouth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This dragon produces a very vivid scarlet flame, though by dragon standards it is not particularly aggressive and will rarely kill unless hungry. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she closed her eyes, she imagined St. Helens exploding, and then a flaming wind sweeping down the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only a monster would give a living child to the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We ate around the flames of our bonfire, dripping butter onto the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Our house never did burst into flames, but the thermometer on the patio, hanging there in the direct sun, did climb to over a hundred degrees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simply, there are swamps which contain a large percentage of sulphur and other gas bubbles that burst continually into flame. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the two flaming vehicles and sighed, knowing he’d be a laughingstock for his failure today. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She lights a fire, and the bright flames cast shadows across his deep-brown skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment the candle flame flared high, illuminating the glen, and the girl, and the chain, unbreakable, that ran from her wrist to his. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked back into the flames, and jumped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was pelted with flaming pinecones, and tripped by taut vines, and crunched by tumbling rocks. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The air around her seemed to shimmer with power, as if she was alight with some secret flame. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She slowly fed the flames leaves and small sticks until it became large enough to ease their shakes and shivers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swept his hand, and a wall of red flame rolled across the patrol cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dany had walked into the flames as they came forth, and they had drunk milk from her swollen breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We have aflame mother to feed the flame slowly so it does not die of hunger.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept blocking him, stealing the ball and passing it forward again, until he looked ready to burst into flame like an angry Balrog. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In this uncomfortable position, he imagined returning to the house and finding it consumed by a violent column of orange flames, reaching skywards like a snapping, hissing monster. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Doom, doom: the pillars seemed to tremble and the flames to quiver. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I quick added logs and blew on the coals until small flames jumped up and bit into the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall, in the orchard behind the house, orbs of flames rising through the black boughs and branches; they climbed, spirit- ous, and flickered out; my mother squeezed my hand with delight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since my fire would be built in a six-inch hole, flames under two feet would not show. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meera Reed was turning a chunk of raw red flesh above the flames, letting it char and spit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tail end of my jacket catches on fire and I have to stop to rip it from my body and stamp out the flames. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He rewards them for their kindness with a basket full of fresh bread and butter that magically replenishes itself and a hollow stone with a flame inside that never burns out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama quickly pulled the sizzling pan away from the open flame. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their fire whirled around him, danced with him but never hurt him: Dustfinger the tamer of flames, the man who breathed sparks, the friend of fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The world is engulfed in scarlet and gold as an enormous phoenix bursts into flames across the entire sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He held his left forearm over the flames, grinning as they licked the sleeve of his jacket. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Those on the ground could hear the roar and crackle as the volatile hydrocarbons flamed high above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the penultimate chime, the dancing flames change from blue to black, and for that moment, it is difficult to discern the fire from its cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountaintops and dusk came into the valley, and a half darkness came in among the willows and the sycamores. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, the flames were contained and the fire began to die out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The smell was musky, acrid, and the flames swallowed the homes with remarkable speed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She pulled her mother’s rocker close and stared into the flames. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their smoky glow flickered redly over the scraps and tatters of building material, as if they were the last remaining flames of a great conflagration, staying alive out of pure malice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All she does is spit on me. The day will come when I’ll set her precious wooden town afire. Let her spit on that, see if it puts out the flames.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No Unforgivable Curses from you, Potter!” he shouted over the rushing of the flames, Hagrid’s yells, and the wild yelping of the trapped Fang. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She glimpsed the shadow of a great wolf, and another like a man wreathed in flames. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Up there the wall was a terrible thing, flame and smoke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midnight, the wind had calmed, and flames had faded to a swath of glowing embers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It’s just the sting of seeing the flaming, furious look stamped on his dark, familiar face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mountains broke in half as they passed, and the earth burst into flame beneath them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A picture of us sitting on the porch at sunset, watching the sky flame up and then drift off into pinks and purples. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo watched a red flame crawl out from under the white coals; he reached down for a piece of juniper and tossed it in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He held the flame over the bowl and sucked. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald panicked a moment as his memories of flames engulfed him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the cards, and then at the flame of the match burning with an unwavering clarity between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered seeing many cartoons of Communists in newspapers and always they had flaming torches in their hands and wore beards and were trying to commit murder or set things on fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I backed into the band room as flames engulfed the doorway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Something in the arrow’s tip broke and spattered, and the flames caught the liquid. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Fireball gained its name for the mushroom-shaped flame that bursts from its nostrils when it is angered. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little figures black against the snow and the fire came tottering or running from it, and witches flew down to help drag them away from the flames. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks thought of flowing hair, the Arabs of flaming swords. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sparks fly from shooting stars, birds flame and disappear like miniature phoenixes in her hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He listened to the radio commentator's horrified voice as he watches the passenger airship explode into flames. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Grey flames swirled around him - burning his sleeves, blistering his face, turning his eyebrows to ashes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The pilot opened his door, yelled, “Get out quickly—she’s going up in flames,” and was gone! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame that had burned in Mercy’s eyes had such purity, such complete selflessness, that everything Kit had ever known seemed dim in its light. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder roars above my head, and I scream as a flame touches my fingertips and pain shrieks over my skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s face flamed up as she finished packing, as June watched her get shipped off. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A fire danced into life on the other side of the canvas; large shadows passed between tent and flames. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Several horses were running away from the billowing smoke and yellow-orange flames. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harry repeated, and he advanced with the picture in his hands as the flames burst into life in the fireplace. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She blew out the flame and carefully placed the oil lamp on the floor of her car. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the flame out of him he was suddenly cold with an age and he was an old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He drew out Sting: it flashed and glittered like a blue flame; and then slowly faded again and grew dull. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had barely resumed his seat, and arranged his face into what he hoped was a relaxed and unfazed expression, when bright green flames burst into life in the empty grate beneath his marble mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He sat under the flame tree and wrote in small careful letters on the sides of old newspapers, on some paper Kainene had done supply calculations on, on the back of an old calendar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I use some dried moss as kindling and when the first little flame shoots out it’s as near as I’ve come to joy since I don’t know when. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She then enlisted my father—the family’s resident artist—to paint a series of orange flames on pieces of very thin rice paper, which, when backlit with a lightbulb, made for a half-convincing fire. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He looked across the fire at Lennie’s anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He gets to erupt into flames. I get to wear these stupid rams horns.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When she got out onto the roof under the night sky, she could see flames licking at the edges of a great hole in the side of the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The same instant he struck my tree he jerked his head and flame shot up my leg. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time I stopped to rest I saw the flaming sun go down over the tops of the cottonwood trees, and the thick, heavy shadows brought dusk. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added more wood and coaxed the smoke into flames, then headed out in search of food. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The tongue twisted away from her flame, then inched back like a snake preparing to strike. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I will not let you go out, he said to himself, to die flames—not ever. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected the room to burst into flames any minute. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He got to the camp still hearing the whine of the engine, and one stick of wood still had good flame. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyssa bursts out of the trailer, leaping over the flames that are about to engulf it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bad ones, who wish the flame to eat us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He took a pinch of glittering powder out of the flowerpot, stepped up to the fire, and threw the powder into the flames. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After gazing into the flames so long, it took her a few moments to adjust to the dimness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The building was in flames, the helicopter was now hovering above, and the scythes strode out of the front entrance, like the four horsemen of the post-mortal apocalypse. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And for as long as I can remember, when she thought no one was looking, she played chicken with the stove, seeing how long she could keep her hand over the flame. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Behind him Juana’s fire leaped into flame and threw spears of light through the chinks of the brush- house wall and threw a wavering square of light out the door. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time it was noticed that a flame leaped in James Grew and some force glowed in his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All about to be swallowed in nights of flame and blackout. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Across the bailey, long tongues of flame shot from the windows of the library. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I am the flame and the spark by which my mother lived.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This was still seven blocks away from the O’Learys’, but close enough that firefighters could see the flames and alter their course. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frank didn’t like to argue with a guy who was holding a ball of fire, but he said, “Uh...you’re immune to flames.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The archers would climb the high ships’ towers to shoot their arrows; slingers would use leather thongs or catapults to launch huge rocks and flaming missiles onto Octavian’s ships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Cupid’s dart had struck me, kindling a flame in my heart and all my parts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’s eyes grew bigger, taking in the flames on the thorax and the bright green of the whole Grasshopper. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Torch flames fluttered like pennons along the walls, and here and there the odd torch guttered out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was already beginning to set beyond new black clouds which were rising in the west, and men came out into the open to watch the last sunlight flame across the fields. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hid the flare of the flame with herself and touched the match to something it her other hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed the matches to Ben and waited as Ben clumsily lit a match and held the flame in front of her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The brightest light came from within houses, or the occasional passerby who made his way holding a flaming rush or lantern before him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching low, the robot wound her way beneath the smoke and around the flames and gently scooped up the young hare. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were clearly the source of the flames, but they didn’t seem to be automatons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She lay quiet with her eyes just a tiny bit open, staring confusedly at the soft flames that occasionally flickered up among the coals that glowed in the fire pit. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I see the little pieces of this world that we’ve managed to cling to bursting into flames. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was aching for a flame, like an unlit candle at dusk. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watched Popular Gary go down in flames, and I was still the good friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tayo looked into the flames for a long time, feeling stronger and more calm as he got dry. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Screams tore from their throats as they stumbled out of the flames, but it was too late. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What each of you must remember is that the sympathist is tied to flame,” he said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The crackling flames gave off waves of heat, causing everyone to step back. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The warmth that had flooded through her when Kaisa had touched her twisted; she felt her cheeks flaming. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black trees tilted, stunted black arms pointing as if to a distant place untouched by flame. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The gas flame on a stove is like a Bunsen burner. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Another burst of flame exploded from the theater, shattering more windows. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The scent of fire brings back Maman's funeral and the flames that engulfed her body, smoldering the bed of Belle-roses, tearing first through her silk dresses, and then her skin and body. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Ellie’s hands were a blur as she banged on the drums so hard, her red mane flailing like flames all around her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The tethered dragon let out a roar, and a gush of flame flew over the goblins: The wizards fled, doubled-up, back the way they had come, and inspiration, or madness, came to Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was the one with flaming red hair and pale white skin. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In that moment, she could no longer feel the flames. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He leans on a stump now, trying to catch his breath, embers from the fire falling around him like flaming confetti. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and Dad liked to set their dogs straight flaming. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the psychologist jumped up suddenly, with a look of flaming insight on her face. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The trash can in front of us was cold and empty, as if he’d taken the flames with him. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then the unmistakable dancing of flame winked between the floorboards. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He thought about flames, and instantly the wood blazed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Its wick emitted a gentle hiss and soft yellow light as a tiny petal of flame danced inside its glass hexagon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Our work complete, the row of buildings all along the riverfront given over to flame, we returned to our landing and stood in formation, awaiting the order to embark. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She only caught glimpses of what passed: walls of white, glacial floors, and every once in a while, a torch burning with a cold blue flame. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At ten seconds before the hour, they raise their bows and aim the flaming arrows at the waiting well of curling iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jinny cleared her throat and looked up at the other kids who ringed the fire, their faces flickering in the flames, with their foreheads hot and their backs cold against the breezy night. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The artist on this platform holds pieces of flame in her bare hands, and she forms them into snakes and flowers and all manner of shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Servants reach long-handled douters overhead and snuff out a few flames. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The flaming exhausts on my hoverboard turn ninety degrees—I’m shot forward like a bullet from a gun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

J. G. Crowther has neatly summed up the real root of the problem, which Oldenburg fanned into flame: ‘Hooke could not understand what tact had to do with science...Newton regarded discoveries as private property’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They smelled the smoke before they heard the flames, because a breeze from the sea was lifting it inland. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mound of embers and charred wood glowed brighter until a single solitary flame licked up, followed soon by another. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The end burns as bright as the flames in the hearth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The leaves twisted and writhed in the flames, and a pungent smell tickled my nose before the smoke was lost to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One moment I’m watching flaming grapes, the next, I’m in the dark. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The gun fired and the con exploded in flames. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He held the flame to the string on the candle, and the string began to burn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When we were talking to Nemesis,” Hazel said uneasily, “your hands...I saw flames.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her thumb found her mouth and she gazed solemnly at the little yellow flame. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As an example of this, Miss Trixie, our Earth Mother of the world of commerce, inadvertently set flame to some important orders in the process of lighting a heater. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the flames began licking on it, her fury increased and she ran and got her box of manuscripts from under her bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering that sombre study, I could see just outside the window the brilliant red flames lit in every tree, and beyond, some threatening thunderclouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to roll the flame between her hands like a toy. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I’m not to blame. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

With that he jumped out of his chair, and with a bound took a candle from the chimney-shelf and lit it in the flame that Goldberry held; then he danced about the table. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Below, the wide plain blazed with torches and Taran saw a great ring of flames. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There’s the crackling of the wood, the whooshing of the flames, the swishing of the new spring leaves in the trees above, a call of an owl, a rustling in the earth—maybe a chipmunk. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Because it suited her. Fire is a fickle thing. No one knows which way a flame will go.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself zooming up a long, striped ramp, soaring through a circle of flames. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Abbot shook his head reprovingly as Winifred lowered the lamp flame and drew the curtains. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It flared and flamed, illuminating the inside of the hall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The world has transformed to flame and smoke. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So he intentionally rolled his body into a spurt of flame. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He came behind me into the reception room where the birds flamed in the cage, their squawks like screams in a nightmare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames snapped all around them & the Smoke wyas great & the Men skipped backwards through the Grass like Morris-dancers, trailing their flaming Pickets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She can’t do that!” she cried, oblivious to the flames licking her hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, his unibrow arches into a V and his cheeks flame red. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

This part of the school was going up in flames. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The smell of burned rubber and smoke curled my stomach as we crouched down, and I was concerned the trail of sparks in front of us would turn into a wall of flame. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The draught from the window caught the flame of the candle. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Not until the flames began to subside did his manic laughter fade. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The flames of the place where Red Devils are said to come from. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see a flaming paper wad coming right down on me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks a candle deep into each cupcake so that the wicks stick out where the flames would exit each space shuttle. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared with the desolate scene outside the car, his eyes look like the dancing flame of a lit match. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The girl was staring into the fading flame as if inside it was the secret truth of the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even with my head in the clouds instead of the flames—and certainly not in any sort of captain-mode—we Firebirds torch them. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The last thing he saw as they darted out of the cavern was the beach bursting into flame. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the flame danced into life, its reflection wavered on their dusty glass and silver. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her arms and neck are bumpy with flaming welts that are almost a perfect color match to our blazers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Once the fire broke through the circle of engines, it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He used gasoline in the lighter and it burned with a frail blue flame and he bent and set the tinder alight and watched the fire climb upward through the wicker of limbs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They blink in confusion and terror at a mass of flaming candles on their Slammer cake, perhaps more candles than they’ve ever seen on one of their own birthday cakes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shukumar lit the wicks of the candles, impressed by their long, steady flames. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Benny was crying as the flames burned the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the strange blue and green flames crackle toward the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He stayed until the steeple caved in and the giant fork at its apex plunged into the flames, resounding with a mournful clang as it hit the ground. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The letter R was the last to go, it twisted in the flame, it curled outwards for a moment, becoming larger than ever. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I struck a match and tossed it in, started a giant flame on the paper that quickly jumped to the wood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His dæmon—a seagull—vanished as if she’d been pinched out of existence like a candle flame. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could send a flaming arrow into the pyramid easily enough -I'm a good enough shot to get it through those openings in the net -but there's no guarantee it would catch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She dreamt of red hearts burning, and a black stag in a golden wood with flame streaming from his antlers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These men who looked steadily into their platinum igniter flames as they lit their eternally burning black pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marilyn pulled back her hand like I was a burning flame. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She covered her fece, eyes watering, and tried to cough up the finger of flame that had crawled down her throat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in heavy furs, his face illuminated by the flame of a naphtha lamp. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there silhouetted against the red flare, looking into the flames, shouting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red flames billowed out, surrounded by black smoke from the burning jet fuel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He felled it with three true arrows—the first making the thing crackle and flame; the second dimming it; and the third putting out its lights, sputter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down across the hearth from Argaven, and saw his face in the light of the flames. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If someone— man, woman, or child—provoked him, the cold, quiet man disappeared and the fire inside him flared up like a rag doused with kerosene, all flames and flying fists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacqui tries to reach through the flames, but screams, curling her hands. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, when exposed to air, it often spontaneously burst into flame. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were five houses alight, the flames grasping for a sixth. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His hands are slow and gentle as candle flame, and the warmth in my chest spreads up through my collarbone and down to my fingertips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked up with tear-blurred eyes at the little yellow light, and it seemed to waver like a flame. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees parted to reveal a mossy clearing hung with strings of silver lanterns, and in the center of the clearing a bonfire was lit, sparking and burning with unnaturally red flames. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to bring him to flame instantly by taking his whole ear in her mouth suddenly and running her hand down his front all the way. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was braided down her back and seemed to catch the light of the torches, as if it were anxious to turn back into pure flame. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They broke apart wooden crates and stooped over smoky campfires, feeding the flames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I redoubled my efforts, but his candle ignored my best attempts to force it into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“One book can take a lifetime to compose, copy, illuminate, gloss, and annotate! A lifetime in each book. You’ll be confining dozens of lifetimes to the flames!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He makes me promise no actual flames until he gets home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Log walls led up to a vaulted ceiling painted blue to resemble the night sky; the stars blistered and peeled away as flames crept across them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The archers let their arrows fly, one by one, sending the flames through a rainbow of conflagration. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He studied the flames, trying to determine their exact location. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They would stand there for hours, the water to their shoulders, with a panoramic view of their city in flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he stared into the flames, then sat down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Powders to turn fire green or blue or silver, powders to make a flame roar and hiss and leap up higher than a man is tall, powders to make smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as I let it go, the flames sputtered out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Clad in black from head to heel, with a mask of red-and-orange flames tattooed across his face, the priest appeared more sinister than ever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is not the god he loves, it is the flames, she concluded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The slave's hair caught fire in the blast of flame the Firedrake sent to follow him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vessels of light trembled and sent up two jets of flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There aren’t just sparks between us, there’s a giant flame leaping back and forth, engulfing us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His airplane shook as a missile leapt off the wing, riding a trail of flame. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

As she beckoned, a wall of flames roared upward, licking at the snowflakes with hot orange tongues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Up through each cleft came a long thin stem, and on top of each stem stood a pointed bud exactly like a candle flame. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Styx’s eyes glowed in the lapping of the flames. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A little flame started, flickered and wavered for a moment, then bloomed suddenly and leaped high with a roar. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

How awful the flames must have been, how fierce, to make such ruin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as she touched it to the burner, the stove burst into flames, setting the curtains on fire. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The white flames burn red through his eyelids. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She flicked the little metal wheel, and a tiny flame erupted. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flame flapped higher and the boys broke into a cheer. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her face looked grim in the light of the new flames. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

What curious principle demands that a candle flame taper always toward the sky? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw men cringing as they neared the flames, heard children cry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Around me, I saw students flaming out—white, black, privileged or not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A tongue of flame trailed back from the upraised torch as he went. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The flames must be scaring them, too, she thought. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Hannibal’s Rest because of the dark sheeting rain, but I knew when we passed my street because the phoenix sat atop the stop sign, its feathers flaming red in the rain. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Gone in a flash, in a frenzy of flames. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A ball of swirling orange flame appeared in his right hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The wooden bowl burst into flames then, a huge gout of flame which singed the leaves of the oak tree far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would not wish such pain on anyone. To be the victor. Hinata would have adored this,” she says as they reach the bonfire, watching the flames dance in the increasing rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Hunters ran after him along the rooftops, shooting arrows that exploded in Greek fire, wreathing the giant in flames. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The roof had caught fire in several places and while the flames had been extinguished, smoke was still oozing down the stairways and along the halls. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The silk sheets, clenched in Ruby’s fists, burst into flame, and an instant later the cloud burst forth rain, severing the dove-and-violin sigh and dousing her before the rest of her bonfire could kindle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Four pilots and four navigators of the 46th Guards perished in flames in the space of half an hour. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Arya saw a tree consumed, the flames creeping across its branches until it stood against the night in robes of living orange. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye I would see sparks of flame, flashes of scenes I had witnessed, and the agonizing voices of children and women would come alive in my head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The third time, the flames had reduced it to a charred carcass amid the smoke-guttering factories and slaughterhouses of the Stockyards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some threw rocks, spears, swords, and even pieces of their armor, all of which burned up in flames of pretty colors. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, he heard other voices crying out and livestock braying and the crackle of flames. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Never the flaming eye of Helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stocks smoked, charred, and burned, the figures in the wood twisting in the flames as if alive. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head to listen, and a puff of air blew my flame out, like somebody had made a wish. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its foremost symptom was a sensation of heat that on occasion flamed in the nerve endings of his forehead until the arteries in his temples pulsed visibly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hung the kettle above the flames while he gathered the rest of his ingredients. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of the stone-lined pits, which Piper had mistaken for wells, spewed out a three-storey geyser of flames and shut off just as quickly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The first flames appeared, shy as maidens, darting and dancing from log to leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I stared into the tiny flickering flame of the tea candle tonight, an image of you and where you are finally surfaced in my mind. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Surtr’s flaming sword is huge and it burns even when it misses. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a cooking fire, the flames represented by shards of red glass; a small, roughly made bench; and assorted tools, gourds, and shells. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tiny flames went darting up the wood like swift red mice, skating over the oil and leaping from bark to branch to leaf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But now, all around me, the flame trees have roused from their long, dry sleep into walls of scarlet blossom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my new house she cooked on a stove with a hot top, but no flames. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook slaves pulled a heavy iron stew pot from the firepit, dumped the stew onto the ground, and returned the pot to the flames. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Leo grinned, which was unnerving in the flames, his teeth like molten silver ingots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon they rounded another corner of the main body of flames, and this time Alec veered to the right, heading away from the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The flames pass by her without touching, swirling around in a vortex. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sparks flew and flames swirled around his body. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“If it means I get to melt that wight’s face off,” she said, little arcs of flame pulsing between her hands, “then absolutely.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In other versions the dead bird bursts into flames, and the new one arises from the ashes, but the worm story is very old, told no doubt by an early biologist. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Dell dropped off the troublemaker and his flame- throwing sister, he headed home. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

R’hllor spoke to his chosen ones through blessed fire, in a language of ash and cinder and twisting flame that only a god could truly grasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed inconceivable that a spectacular streak of milk-white flame, rising and setting with the stars night after night, was not there for a reason, did not hold some portent for human affairs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could endure the hot flames and choking smoke for long. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a match from a small dish on the table and lit it from one of the flames. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he recoiled, his face twisting at the sight of the flames, and he glared at the riders who stood between him and Anya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Danny pushed me aside as he stamped out the flame and grabbed it up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked about and saw flames licking the air not too far away from where I stood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He sat at the high table as a dish of onion soup cooled before him, hardly tasted, staring at the flame of the nearest candle with those hooded eyes, ignoring the talk around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a bright flame, only a feeble, orange light, fussing and spitting in the damp air. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its name and its shiny shell, the lantern fly does not actually glow, so Maria's mention of a “flame of light” was probably the result of reflected candlelight. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing with an open flame in here?” he demanded in the loudest whisper I had ever heard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there I am, replacing the mockingjay, standing before the real flames and smoke of District 8. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The flames had dimmed, and in most places had subsided to sullen coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At night, it reflected light from a burning flame. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The little scumbag would hope to destroy the Greek camp from a distance, wait for the flames to die down, then march in unopposed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He tears off a match, lights the wick: it flickers and then burns with a steady flame, which gives the illusion of motion to the faceless statue beside it, all hips and breasts. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Ash looked at Gwen and at the revelers dancing around the bonfire, and the flickering flames cast all their faces in gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stamped out the few that were still edged in red and threatening to flame up again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The girl by his side stood with her hands clasped together, concealing a tendril of flame that curled stubbornly around the nail of her pinky, which happened sometimes when she was upset. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he saw again the Horned King and heard the screams from the flaming cages. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

At thirty seconds before midnight, they light the tips of their arrows with small dancing yellow flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each firehouse had a watchman who scanned the immediate neighborhood for flames or smoke during the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had burned, with the blame going either to Mother’s spirit or the mischief of village children, though Tata Boanda allowed it was probably Father trying to toast meat over a kerosene flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled at his red whiskers and ran a hand through his thinning hair, which made it stand up like flames rising behind his head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It does nothing to quell the fire, because the flames just close in and the remaining sides of the cooler collapse. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took a few tries before a wisp of smoke curled up to signal the birth of a flame. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The giant poinsettias in the courtyard looked like flaming torches. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This cat, with the small flames dancing in its oblique eyes, was perhaps seeing the pageant of its past eight lives, reviewing them with an animal's stoicism, beyond hope or fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate you,” Celia says, still staring at the candle flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He and Spurge flinched as flames darted all around them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And it was so big, Meggie felt sure everything around it would go up in flames: the grass, the deck chair, and Dustfinger himself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And from the dancing flames there issued a thunderous voice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the sun is above the horizon and the orange of flames gives way to the black of smoke, rising along the western walls and blowing like a caul across the citadel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gaslight shone upon the heavy, leonine lines of his features—a mane of sandy-brown hair, eyes the piercing blue of gas flames, a firm mouth shaped around the stem of a briar pipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Let it burn, let it fan the flames of your will, your determination. The movement is bigger than one man, Steven. Martin would tell you that.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fire roared, at least ten feet wide with its tongues of flame licking far up into the air, almost threatening the lower limbs of the trees surrounding it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The fire would continue for the next three days, the flames visible for fifty miles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"It's in my knickers! It's running round in my flaming knickers! Get it out! Someone help me to get it out!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When his voice rose in a crescendo, flames leapt from his fingers with a sudden whoosh and made the crowd gasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually, painfully, the flames seemed to expire in Tally’s chest, the cough dying a quiet death inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Tell me the last time someone was prosecuted for putting a Grisha to the flames. Do you even call it murder when you put down dogs?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Priscilla Willis glanced up from the flames as Finn and the mare stepped close. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t hear him breathing over the roar of the approaching flames. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In her hand was a flaming stick, which she held up like a torch. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The flames tattooed upon their faces were their binders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quick as a flame catching a wick, Jeanne spat, “You don’t know what I know!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fever in my bones has subsided and the air no longer dances with flames, but Anatole still comes to me at night in the pelt of a panther. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he erupted into a column of flame, and the fire moved over the water, heading back to the world outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We others cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs, then stood by weeping while the flame burnt through corse and equipment. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

White flames seemed to Frodo to flicker on their crests and he half fancied that he saw amid the water white riders upon white horses with frothing manes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I catch the inside wing of one, causing it to burst into flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jasper looked straight at him, rage suddenly flaming out over his disdain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the roof collapses, the girl continues to scream long anguished cries as flames engulf the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Quick, powerful puffs of wind create brush and bush sparks, trees become mammoth flaming candles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Klaus pictured all the books in the library, going up in flames. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, his appetite now seemed to be returning to him, and eating more put the flames out. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was raging around Leo right now, and the flames were going to continue burning until he did something about it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I turn on the flame and we watch it melt down in the pan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then I concentrated, muttered another binding, and held the oak twig above the flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dora sat in a kind of throne, her orange hair flaming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon coiled in front of a fireplace, the flames lighting its ruby scales. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A Greek firebomb exploded right on top of him, but he raised his palm and sucked the flames out of the air. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hatred would fill him like an enormous roaring flame. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It slowed as it approached the tree, blowing flame again and again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he persists and at last has a good roaring flame. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He buried his face in a hankie, by turns lighting it on fire and then dousing the flames with his tears. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Suddenly: “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Over there!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irina Rakobolskaya, the deputy commander for the 46th Guards, said that “a single incendiary bullet could turn it into a flaming torch.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They squatted at the pointed end and held the flame near the word. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Across town her family was just now gathering on the bank of the duck pond, watching the firefighters douse the Richardson house, flame by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the flame came to her she said, looking into her son’s eyes, who quickly dropped his, “Your father has many good points.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the flames leaped up, reaching my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A wind had picked up, fanning the flames; a huge branch toppled from far above and crashed through the canopy, throwing sparks everywhere until it finally hit the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the pot of hot dogs, which had long since boiled out of water, was seething and shaking on top of the wild gas flames. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cracking, frolicking flames I saw the face of Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the midnight hall people were juggling thin violet flames, shifting, changing, for nighttime was the time of change and affliction. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a minute later, I see flames up ahead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she felt the heat on her fingers and let go, and the flaming stick dropped over the ledge and into the river. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her tears flowed and flowed as if they were still trying to extinguish the already-departed flames, and the freezing wind wrapped around her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had been studying the flames of the fire when Chasca spoke to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I took them down, folded them in tight rectangular squares, and brought them inside, where my grandmother, the ironing board, and two flaming irons waited for me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The flames crackled and sent sparks high into the brightening air. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now,’ he said, ‘we is waiting for the gun and flames to begin.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Will watched as the flames roared along the resinous twigs, and with streaming eyes and scorched hands he adjusted each fresh branch till the heat was focused as Iorek wanted it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Abanazer Bolger picked up the card again, by the edge, and waved it back and forth, slowly, as if running the edge along an imaginary flame. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I blew gently on the fragile flames and saw one skinny twig start to burn, then another. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Two hanging side by side were twins save that one had a blue flame and the other was a hot-forge orange. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We begin to forget, as we go stolidly balancing along, that there could have been a time when we were young bodies flaming with the impetus of life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nero killed his new empress Poppea, their unborn child, then himself, and his regime collapsed disastrously, with Rome in flames. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s really important to keep in mind that none of us can know the mind, motivations, or intentions of the person who set flame to Sasha’s clothing,” he wrote. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They came toward her, and the first one set her torch down upon Elowen’s body, the flames flaring up as they touched the fur cloak that served as her shroud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the giant got closer, I could see three human-size envoys with him: a half-blood in armor, an empousa demon with a black dress and flaming hair, and a tall man in a tuxedo. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He clapped the other on top of it and then, holding both pieces together with the tongs, held the whole thing over the flame of the spirit lamp. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him the sky flamed over the mummy-shaped outline of the Libyan cliffs, gateway to the awesome Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I look around for smoke and flames, but instead of a fire, I see a grinning fireman descending from the truck carrying a big wrench and an even bigger radio. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I looked at her, I felt the same way as when I stared into the ancient flame of the Atashkadeh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jagged flames danced across the surface of the fog, colored a bright sodium- red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, as the tallow dwindled and the flame began to gutter in the wet wax of the candle, a hunchback approached the dais. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Is this the same guy flamed out near Jacksonville in December?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, slabs of sleek black stone were inlaid with the silver wolf’s head, the surfaces lit with eerie blue flame. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was surprised my face didn’t burst into flames. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Over the heads of the prisoners Chamberlain could see the Regiment falling into line out in the flaming road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she, with her flaming hair and bright pink dress, is an exotic orchid. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The steel points of pikes flamed red with sunlight, as if already blooded, while the pavilions of the knights and high lords sprouted from the grass like silken mushrooms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One could be made visible by holding the paper over the flame of a candle; the other could be read by applying a common chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered about the people who had been inside, how they had felt just before the accident, before the smashing glass and crunched metal and leaping flames. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He rolled a big rock over beside the smoky flames to use as a chair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He stood them about the fire, close in against the blaze, but not quite touching the flame. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled of oak, and flame, and December. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered the remaining leaves and flung them into the fire, where they caught, flaming, and drifted upward like burning black pages. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The grease under the hood built up and ignited, and this time they were too far from fire extinguishers to put out the flames. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain came down in bullets, but it didn’t quench the flames. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For two blocks I say nothing to my family because if I open my mouth, red-hot flames might shoot out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishtail, meanwhile, smoked peacefully and looked into the leaping flames. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Panicking, Mama swats with a dish towel, a frying pan of flames. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It was, like, a little flame. I thought it was just going to go out.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One held what looked like a piece of black coal and a piece of white chalk, and where the two pieces were pressed together, an angry red flame burned outward in all directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were crowded with people; the foolhardy and curious stood in clumps watching the advancing flames, while others hurried along to escape them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But save that flame, all was murk and midnight mist, and silence lay as thick as death. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Coming out again, he held the hose, like a lemon wedge wrapped in cheesecloth, over the flames, and prepared to squeeze . . . . . . when suddenly he stopped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Three other cooks were boning fish, while a spit boy turned a boar over the flames. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He collapses to the floor, the flames climbing higher and higher all around him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A house that dry is liable to go up in flames. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The red leaves of the weirwood were a blaze of flame among the green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They seem to have this eternal flame of hope. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The beard of flame diminished quickly; then the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound, and sent a great tree of sparks upwards that leaned away and drifted downwind. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ghostly flames danced on the beautiful palaces beneath Old Familiar’s wings, somehow throwing off real heat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Westley dodged a sudden burst of flame, shielded Buttercup from the heat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was not killt nor burnt; I had not even twisted an ankle running from the flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flares were kept where the aircrew could reach them, and their explosions told Larisa that the flames had already reached the cockpits of the burning Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“People will just watch you being hacked to death and put to flames. Besides, you don’t have a permit to enter Alexandra.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the television set, a sports car crashed into a truck, shot off a cliff, and burst into flames. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

White mist hung in the air like frozen spiderwebs, and the roaring flames of the Burning Sea faded as a blanket of eerie silence covered us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sun, as it rose, tinged the quick-silver of the creeks and the gleaming slime itself with flame. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oak tree below burst into sudden, brilliant flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She shook it and flicked the button with her thumb until at last a small flame shot out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some people had already drifted away, but most were still watching the flames flicker out on the great lawn, and everyone had to listen to Javi. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone had thrown flaming Molotov cocktail gasoline bombs through the front picture window. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she fanned the flames by performing military dance exercises. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The god erupted in flames, and then he was gone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Glass breaking, the sizzle of flames, the whack of a nightstick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The only sounds which came to the ear were flames, from which a continual haze was thrown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At once a great spout of green and blue flame sprang out, and the wood flared and sputtered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The flames of her eyes seemed to bum a little brighter at that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“For only such a horrible place could create such creatures who could burn a person with a flaming hot iron.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You've been giving the princess just what she wants. Wise plan, for now. But don't let your flame burn out, little beauty. You'll be in trouble." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical voice said, “What about my flames, old friend?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The second sat close to the flames, feeding them twigs and branches and complaining of the wind in a querulous tone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hurried over with my pot and held it above the flame. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A nimbus of flames still flickered about the body. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It did seem to be coming from the bluffs, which meant that if it was a flame, it was a big one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thorn ran over to try to help, when her own cape burst into flames. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The yams, some bubbling with syrup, lay on a wire rack above glowing coals that leaped to low blue flame when struck by the draft of air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing wildly, he turned back to the flames and gave the burning chunks of wood a hard kick. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Those occupying the chairs closest to the flaming chair abandon their seats and rush for the door, only to find that there is no longer a door to be found, only a solid wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We stood on the street watching the flames devour the shack. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alys leaned forward and turned the flame higher in the oil lamp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A longsword had been thrust through her heart, and its leather grip was alive with flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was low beneath the roar of the flame, but the man in the gray suit seemed to hear him fine. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Harry raised his wand arm, which felt like lead, and murmured “Aguamenti” too: Together, he and Hagrid poured water on the house until the last flame was extinguished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then he ignites the candle with the bright orange flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I swung the binoculars back toward the burning house at the moment when the roof caved in and the final golden crown of flames rose up through the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Blue Eyes was a little candle flame in the darkness, and even though I didn’t know for sure if Miles really was Blue Eyes, I couldn’t let him be snuffed out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I turned were walls of flames, and the sky was an obsidian sea. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Fire!” someone shouts, and I look to see orange flames leap from one thatched roof to another. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver horse leapt the flames as if she had wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ghostly flames shimmered off the polished black marble of the walls and floor and bathed the hall in an emerald radiance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most everyone in the neighborhood has stepped out of their home to marvel at our light—like moths entranced by the lick of a hot campfire flame. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And it is His will that we survive, that we keep alive the flame of Western civilization in this dark continent ruled by religions of the anti-Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames climbed up and around the newspaper, getting bigger and brighter. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Aru blinked and looked up to see a wall of flames towering above them, blocking the cave entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hameed moves the dough over the blue flames of the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He took one and Max held the flame; he sucked the smoke deep into his lungs and discovered that he did not want it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A priest in scarlet robes stood on the temple balcony, haranguing the small crowd that had gathered around the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He thought of the large black bird circling over the flames of their family mansion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If you keep the fire alive, it will keep you alive,” explained Roz as she dropped another log onto the flames. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Get out,” Papa shouted as he rushed in the kitchen and saw the flames. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I smelled smoke and then saw flames leaping at the open window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The waters ate most, but a few found the decks of galleys in the first line of battle, spreading flame when they shattered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t cool at all,” she replied, swinging the flame close enough that I could feel its radiating heat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No need to worry, no need to worry!” shouted Fudge, already with one foot in the flames. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“That was just a cover story,” Poulsson now informed them, touching the match flame to his pipe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I casually moved the foot of the wax doll into the space about an inch above the candle’s wick, which is actually the hottest part of the flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had sent flames outside the house, up through the attic to the pumps there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Piper, the flames and the shrapnel -’ ‘I know.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Were they evacuated to the Capitol because of her father’s position, or left to the flames? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She lifted one hand from her head and was about to make a flame when a sudden intuition made me grab her wrist. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was busy with the bellows, trying to coax the embers of the fire into flame, when the door opened and a gust of wind whipped through the shop. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames were reflected on the quick of it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They reached the bottom of the steps just before the cellar doors fell in, consumed with flames from the outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The girl sat hunched and shrunken, staring at the candle flame, tears glistening in her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The fist and flame. My father put it there. You were the second person he tattooed, after my mother.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My soul had been invaded—and devoured—by a black flame. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hold your hand in front of the flame. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He woke in terror, and sent the werelight flaming through the air, lighting every corner of the little house till he saw no shadow anywhere. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing their companions shot in the neck with arrows, they heeled in panic, sometimes turning back to the flames but mostly running straight on, straight toward people and death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the Navy, they happily fanned the flames of her growing fame. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No, she has a spark. More than that—a flame of real intelligence. I just know it,” my mother insisted, sounding a little stronger. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

So Victor lit a fire and as they all huddled together in front of the flames they soon felt warm. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wild light flamed in his eyes, but his malice was no longer matched by his old griping strength. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“What possessed you to go in there with an open flame?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We believe that flames were not meant to burn forever.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If it isn’t all done, every little bit of it, you’re going to face the 6:00 P.M. dinner rush defenseless and probably go down in flames. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, Arya took the letter and carried it to the hearth, stirring the logs with a poker to wake the flames anew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Do what I say or I’m gonna do worse yet,” she says, flicking her lighter’s flame close to my head. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The flames blazed up beside him, welcome heat beating against his face as he dressed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I inhale, peering at black clouds, hellish flames raging, roaring inside and out the two towers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Below Him—on the altar—stood the fat tallow candle, whose constant fluttering flame shed some light upon the white walls of painted lime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Specks of flaming fabric swirl through the air. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then they broke the evil bridge and set red flames in the noisome fields and departed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two other giant men stood nearby over a bronze brazier, studying images in the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He says to tell a lie is a sin, and that any man who lies for his own gain and does not repent will spend eternity in the agony of hell’s flames. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Also, I don’t want to be surrounded by a sky of flame. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, we looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames, “Do you like animals?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly the flames licked hungrily over the platform, turning it into an inferno. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The noise, the slaughtering and slaughtered demons black against the flames—what scenes then have been in Sherwood, where now the oak trees crowd into a shade! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and mother and my sisters perished in the flames. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Semele's eyes opened wide with fright, and she stared over the flames of the fire at her guest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was down to scattered flames among the embers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Around them, in the vast hall, flames leaped blue, flared, evaporated. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants rushed in from all over to put out the flames, and they did a good enough job, considering that everything in the room was flying this way, that way, fans and scarves and hats. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The moped’s green paint gleamed and the flames’ gold accents sparkled with splashes of sunshine. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was but a child when introduced to him. I should like to ascertain if even in the flaming chasms of Tartarus, he wears high-heels.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tilt the flame toward your knuckles. And once the fuse is lit, be sure to back away quick.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie swore, afterward, that the plane did not go down in a ball of flame until it had made at least two more passes over the runway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He shoved his hand in his pocket to extinguish the flames. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She made the mistake of glancing over the rail and saw armed legionnaires closing ranks in the forum, preparing flaming arrows. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its flame was burning, it was giving out light, but it had a shadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bridge is still burning like you wouldn’t believe, hanging on the opposite cliff like a waterfall on fire, flames having leaped up the entire length of it, angry and greenish yellow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His thought is not just that there is flame in a few places where we see stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whatever it was that had been protecting them from the flames was beginning to break. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He kept looking over at Edwin and Garvey, imagining how stupid he must look circling the flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Soon they had a merry crackle of flame at the foot of a large fir-tree and they sat round it for a while, until they began to nod. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was staring into the flickering flames, lost in some vision. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind had shifted, slowing the march of the flames eastward and giving them precious minutes to untangle the traffic jam. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its long tables were full of beakers set over low blue flames, heating and cooling apparatuses, glass vials full of powders in varying shades of orange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped, and I felt my cheeks go flaming red. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A giant flame shot up, and I thought it was wonderful that the stove, which had been gasping its last breath, had made such a miraculous recovery. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Its red wings beat so fast that it looks like a flame dancing around her stern face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But I have a question for you. How did you make it through the fire? The reagent produces a most intense flame. How is it you are not burned?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Which one will get you back through the purple flames?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Outside, he saw a crimson night sky lit up by flames and flying embers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson and I took our plates to the bronze brazier and scraped a portion of our food into the flames. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not because she’s older than I thought or because of her fierce animosity, but because on her neck, I see a tattoo of a closed fist raised high with a flame behind it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, that’s not the worst of it. I saw images of a possible future—the camp in flames, Roman and Greek demigods lying dead. And Gaea...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My palms need to feel the heat of a hallowed flame whose blessing I bring to my eyes and forehead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was darker now, but the flame spurts behind him outlined his face. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was no light to see by except the gunfire and the exploding flames—no streetlamps, no cracks of light in any doors or windows, not even the glow of a cigarette end. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then he jumped to his radio that had crackled into life as the shores of Iwo Jima burst into flame. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed the laughing crowd into the circle of dancers weaving their way around the crackling flames, and she let Colin spin her through unfamiliar steps, the Square a blur of color in her eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flames roared higher, leaping from one window to the next. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He paused and tried not to think about what had happened to that manuscript, about the flames that must have charred it quickly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could have found the fire extinguishers and stopped the flames somehow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Watch this, Nick, he says, then dribbles to the center of his backyard and flame throws a banana kick so swift, it basically splits the air, then sizzles right into his doghouse. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here a long time." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though Joachim Lorenz looked anything but hopeful as he stared into the flames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick as lightning he thrust the big stake into the Firedrake's jaws, jamming them open even as the creature gaped wide to let loose the first foul gust of flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of families had become separated in the mad scramble to escape the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another man thrust a flaming torch at her back, but the rainbow cloak was too sodden with blood to bum. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She lit the sinew and a flame illuminated her tiny home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan looked at what he wrote and carefully, quietly tore the page out, crumpled it, and tossed it into the flames of his bedroom fireplace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The fireplace is roaring with wood crackling, logs shifting and bursting with yellow-red flames. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At those words Denethor’s eyes flamed again, and taking the Stone under his arm he drew a knife and strode towards the bier. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The weak flame cut a circle of light in the shadows, but before they could take a single step the match went out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds a flaming sword, and the bubbling lava and the freezing mist are as one to him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He got a candle lit, and Asta flew back to him, for the little flame itself was enough to distract Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After a minute, the end is red hot and smoky, with flames catching on the new wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I got it!” he said as small clouds of smoke drifted up into the air and a low flame started blooming on the mound of sticks and leaves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We got fired at on the way in, and for a while the tail was in flames and she couldn’t control it properly, and she made me bail out before she tried to land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The twins came over to stare at the flame. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"Oh, do that again!" says Caesar, and so I lift up my arms and spin around and around letting the skirt fly out, letting the dress engulf me in flames. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Let me see her for as long as I hold my hand in the flame,” he tells them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The flames, the fear, the feeling of utter desolation were too much for him to handle. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet, licking flame lay in an insulated recess behind clear quartz. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a bit scary—what if the flames aren’t all died down? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They are a surging sea, daggers of flame from the explosions leap up like fountains. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no use.The truck burst into flame. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She wept not for Jordan, whose spark was finally snuffed out, but for all of the flames of pain and hatred he had caused. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is a circle with a flame inside it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We would just flicker out like flames in the quiet night. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes were gray, strangely deep, clear as a flame, and Taran sensed that little was hidden from Adaon’s thoughtful and searching glance. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a click of claw on stone, and a hiss like an extinguished flame. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As he did every morning, he took a deep breath and stared at the lamp on his desk—a tiny flame that burned night and day, fueled by magic olive oil from the supply room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I loved the scratching sound of the match against the sandpapery brown strip when I struck it, and the way the flame leaped out of the red- coated tip with a pop and a hiss. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the withered wisps grew larger, longer, shimmering and crackling, nearly blinding Taran with streaks of liquid flame. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A third chime with a third arrow, and the flames are a warm bright pink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a brief red flame that flickered under the clouds and died away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He saw the flaming blue thrusters of a Berg and its metal underbelly coming down from the sky above. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then the echoes died as suddenly as a flame blown out by a dark wind, and the enemy advanced again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But my head is certainly not in the flames. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The sky was a panorama of orange flame bright enough to read by. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She went on to regale them with stories about circus life—hanging from trapezes, leaping through flaming hoops, getting shot from cannons—until gradually Sticky cheered up, and the matter of parents was dropped. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But for Bellerophon riding Pegasus there was no need to come anywhere near the flaming monster. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was so hot I thought the cornhusks might explode into flames. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z