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  • I watched a woman walk across the street wearing high boots and a poncho made entirely out of small flame-shaped white lightbulbs.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • I watched a woman walk across the street wearing high boots and a poncho made entirely out of small flame-shaped white lightbulbs.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • She distracted herself by studying his chandelier, thinking that he must have rigged it himself, because instead of normal lightbulbs, there were plastic candles topped with red-tinted flame-shaped bulbs.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • She distracted herself by studying his chandelier, thinking that he must have rigged it himself, because instead of normal lightbulbs, there were plastic candles topped with red-tinted flame-shaped bulbs.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • She distracted herself by studying his chandelier, thinking that he must have rigged it himself, because instead of normal lightbulbs, there were plastic candles topped with red-tinted flame-shaped bulbs.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • She put her fingers to the base of one of the delicate flame-shaped light bulbs in the chandelier.

    Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009

  • The bedside table and a lamp with an elephant base and a tiny flame-shaped bulb were wedged between his still form and the closed bathroom door.

    Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

  • The brown paneling had an imitation wood grain pattern, and brassy fixtures held up flame-shaped electric bulbs with lights inside that wobbled back and forth.

    The Sky Inside Clare B. Dunkle 2008

  • The brown paneling had an imitation wood grain pattern, and brassy fixtures held up flame-shaped electric bulbs with lights inside that wobbled back and forth.

    The Sky Inside Clare B. Dunkle 2008

  • The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Perak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defense of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

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