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  • As the rugged Hebrew prophet, while his eyeballs swam in fire,

    City and Village 2010

  • In nearly every one of these expeditions the enemy was encountered, and the wagons were usually loaded while the skirmishers kept up a running fire,

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire,

    Sole Music 2010

  • The memories of paper and ink are few, the rest blown across the earth by wind and fire,

    Tatev 2010

  • Under the hills the heart of the axe Arises from cinders the still core of the fire,

    Stalling 2010

  • That perfect moment of complete wonder when Silas discovers the child Eppie sitting in front of his fire,

    A therapeutic dose of George Eliot 2007

  • That perfect moment of complete wonder when Silas discovers the child Eppie sitting in front of his fire,

    A therapeutic dose of George Eliot 2007

  • Not ONE of you is worth the spit required to put you out if you were on fire,

    The Butchers of Hope, and the Reclaiming of American Greatness 2009

  • We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, as we rush down the long tunnel of time - the biker of course, drunk on the wind, but also the man reading by a fire,

    Speed Lines 2007

  • ‘I have been since,’ says Mr. Sapsea, with his legs stretched out, and solemnly enjoying himself with the wine and the fire,

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

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