You may hear the fire begin to roar already, and I know by experience, that when the
flame once gets fairly into the prairie grass, it is no sloth that can outrun it."
What, my councillors, rise, take the hand of Mopo, and hold it to the
flame, that his heart may rejoice in the warmth of the
flame while we speak together of this matter of the child that was, so my mother sang, born to Baleka, my wife, the sister of Mopo, my servant."
I cannot let her watch for ME in vain, till I have done my best: then tell me where the Fire-Spirits dwell, and I will ask of them the
flame that shall give life to the little child and such great happiness to the sad, lonely mother: tell me the path, and let me go."
`Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back, I saw, through the black pillars of the nearer trees, the
flames of the burning forest.
* the
flames. But the theft, if there be one, would be rather too
As a faint spurt of
flame rose from the point where the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly upon the ground.
The
flames which swept rapidly over the light vegetation of the prairies assumed a fiercer character and took a stronger hold amid the wooded glens and ravines of the mountains.
Hundreds of observers saw the
flame that night and the night after about midnight, and again the night after; and so for ten nights, a
flame each night.
Tongues of
flame here and there broke through that cloud.
Lop-Ear and I sat for hours, watching the
flames and smoke.
A gunshot suddenly pealed forth and shot its
flame into the air.
Do as I say," as Clayton hesitated, and then they saw the lithe figure bound away cross the clearing toward the northwest where the forest still stood, untouched by
flame.