Sentence examples for circle of flames from inspiring English sources

Clegg also put on a good show, efficiently extinguishing the circle of flames his party have burning around his feet.

Holding a drum upon which he beats the rhythm of creation, he dances within a circle of flames that depicts the arc of dissolution.

On the southern wall of the bell tower is a smaller window that shows the Holy Spirit, represented by a dove in a circle of flames.

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.

Standing in the circle of flames, the first person I phoned was my ex-husband, Bogdan.

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.

A gorgeous circle of yellow flame, whose rays seemed indefinite in length, encircled the dark rim of the moon".

The brutal imagery of this debut, echoed in many subsequent seasons – Joan, the autumn/winter 1998 show, ended with a model circled by a ring of flames; Voss, spring/summer 2001, came to a climax with a glass box shattering to reveal moths fluttering around the masked face of a naked woman – was matched only, for sucker‑punch impact, by McQueen's death.

I am sure Mr. Doelger would have understood if he could only have seen the beautifully perfect circle of low (very low!) flame spreading out from the incendiary.