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Meanings of devouring flames in English

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Usage of devouring flames in English
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Factories and commission houses sank to red ruin before the devouring flames.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
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Through an opening overhead he saw the skeleton seized by devouring flames.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
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The seamen instinctively gave a cheer as they saw it disappear among the devouring flames.
Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea
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Her sharp eyes noticed it, and both grew red and fiery as two devouring flames.
The Midnight Queen
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She looked about her, and she could not help seeing and hearing the devouring flames.
Down South; or, Yacht Adventure in Florida
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Onward, in the shape of a wedge, advanced the devouring flames with the sharp point first.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief / Or, An Englishman's Adventures in th...
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When the devouring flames seize upon the cedar, shall not the lowly hyssop fear and tremble?
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ...
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Here holy oratory distilled like dew, breathed like zephyrs, crashed like storms, leaped like devouring flames.
Sketches of the Covenanters
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Who can dwell for ever with devouring flames?
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
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From every quarter rose the devouring flames.
A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the...
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Jack had been shrewd enough to pick out a room that was further away from the devouring flames.
The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership
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The fierce, devouring flames come later.
The Elephant God
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Here she found fortunes accounted for that melt in the crucible under which pleasure and vanity feed the devouring flames.
Poor Relations
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Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.
The Monk: A Romance
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The poor sufferer in Trinidad who lost his all in the devouring flames will remember your charity to his latest moments.
Wanderings in South America
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He will read this confession or recantation tomorrow at St. Paul's, and help to fling the precious books upon the devouring flames.
For the Faith: A Story of the Young Pioneers of Reformation in O...
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