tongue of flame

A tongue of flame flicked out of one of its cannons.

Some signs had the apostrophe before that final S. Some had it after the S. Some had no apostrophe and on some the apostrophe seemed to float above the S, like the tongue of flame you see on a Renaissance painting of an apostle being visited by the Holy Spirit.

Through the night, each orange tongue of flame flickered from a wick at the top.

But the rocket lifted off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on a tongue of flame and flew into space without a hitch, live video of the launch showed.

A second tongue of flame shot from the wand and interlinked with the first, making a fine, glowing chain.