aflame
Example Sentences
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Bushy white hair aflare, drooping mustache aquiver, cotton strips wound around his arms to absorb the sweat, he is a little deaf but alert as a lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jordan O'Neil, who is played by Demi Moore, muscles aripple, attitude aflare and buzz-cut hairdo a sight.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were broadly aflare now, and a trifle in advance of the sentry at the entrance two officers were standing, brilliant with their red coats and cocked hats.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles
The sun's aflare Behind the breathing grass: And cracking through the young bamboo The warning whispers pass.
From The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard
Better, the flame-cross still aflare, Shot-shattered to have met thy doom Where thy last lightnings cheered the gloom, Than here be safe in dangerless despair.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
