She ran up a small flight of stairs, walked through a pool of water, reached down and lighted a circle of flame, which rose around her on the Olympic caldron.
We are reminded of the danger of circus life as the female animal-tamer goes into the ring, here skilfully evoked through a circle of flame-filled buckets, with menacing tigers.
The show ends when Mr. Moschen rotates two torches in a circle of fire, the flames as vivid as a Chinese ribbon dance, and then extinguishes them by shutting them into a black box.
The first thing I saw, walking up the steep stone steps to the Rossgates' house, was a fiendish circle of flames leaping out of the enormous mouth of the pizza oven, and Bruce, with a bottle of cold white wine and a pair of long iron tongs, waiting for me in a deck chair.
What does the painting, a spiraling circle of flame -- a magic circle -- mean?
Clegg also put on a good show, efficiently extinguishing the circle of flames his party have burning around his feet.
Standing in the circle of flames, the first person I phoned was my ex-husband, Bogdan.
She is called Merida, and I saw her leave a Scottish castle, on horseback, and race through twisted woods until she is thrown from her mount to land in a circle of ancient stones, from where a mysterious flame lures her to a nearby cottage.
There were a lot of flames everywhere.
