altar-fire

Why, the poor old crone is restless in a strange land, and yearns to lay her bones, she says, among her people in the old graveyard at home: and so they go to pay her passage back: and God help her and them, and every simple heart, and all who turn to the Jerusalem of their younger days, and have an altar-fire upon the cold hearth of their fathers.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

I made an offering of gold and poured incense on the altar-fire.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Edwin the boy "a flame burnt that was like an altar-fire."

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

Her piety is an altar-fire where religion acquires strength to go out on its merciful mission.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom’s altar-fire:

"Liberty Enlightening the World" 1917

Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom's altar-fire:

A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men.

INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

In that head of his a flame burnt that was like an altar-fire

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Grenville Kleiser 1910

There was the humble worshipper at the altar-fire, offering her devotions in a simple reverent manner.

The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists 1910

Perhaps it is true, and not an invention, that Marcus Scaevola voluntarily thrust his hand into the altar-fire and stood mute and smiling, and watched it burn and char.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900