Sentence examples for account of fire from inspiring English sources

Great beauty and tenderness accompany an account of fire devouring a house, from the first little flame "stretching its neck for sustenance like a little orange chick," to its joyous triumph, "as swelling and as rolling as the sea".

Several building codes are now available for the design of concrete structures reinforced with FRP even if no calculation model taking account of fire conditions has been suggested.

For Plato, the celestial regions were made "mostly out of fire" on account of fire's mobility.

The eyewitness accounts of "fire which appeared as a bright light" could be explained by the lights and engine roar of the low-flying plane itself.

His accounts of fire dancers, shamans, folk singers and monks evoke the rich differences that Communism sought to suppress and that the capitalist post-Revolution may end up extinguishing.

Once completed, the new footage will be compared with the FLIR video account of the fire.

Jerry Lee Lewis – perhaps slightly less hale, but still almost dangerously hearty – gave us his account of setting fire to Chuck Berry's piano on stage when they were touring together.

An account of a fire in 1891 found a mixed bag of businesses: insurance, jewelry, tailors and, in the basement, the Gotham, "an expensively furnished restaurant," according to The New York Times.

Sinbad challenged her account of sniper fire soon after he heard it more than a week ago, saying the scariest part of the trip for him was wondering where the next meal would come from.

While some authors are natives – like Jack London, whose San Francisco Stories chronicle early grittier times, including a rare first-hand account of the fire after the 1906 earthquake – it's mostly a city of transplants and transients.

After a fascinating and detailed account of a fire king learning his trade and preparing his demonstrations, we find the poor fellow has been reduced to catching rats with his teeth to earn enough money to survive.