Sentence examples for colours of fire from inspiring English sources

The paintings that Caravaggio left on the island of Sicily at the start of the 17th century are stupendous masterpieces of popular art from which the power of his lost nativity can be judged: cavernous, eerie visions in the colours of fire and night.

From a pair of flat-screen televisions a henna-bearded hajji lectures, finger wagging and face set stern, before a superimposed backdrop of Mecca.The steam-table holds delights: butterfish and shad in a herb gravy, tandoori chicken the colour of fire trucks, bony hunks of goat, samosas, pakoras, other fried delicacies I can't identify.

The Philadelphian hills are "like so many large loaves of green bread"; Ruth Dettman, in her lonely kitchen, notices that the oranges in her fruit bowl are as "wrinkled as brains"; Mary, crossing the Atlantic by boat, watches "towards late afternoon, and the water being lacquered and the sun sinking, the sea became dark and then the colour of fire.

The Philadelphian hills are "like so many large loaves of green bread"; Ruth Dettman, in her lonely kitchen, notices that the oranges in her fruit bowl are as "wrinkled as brains"; Mary, crossing the Atlantic by boat, watches "towards late afternoon, and the water being lacquered and the sun sinking, the sea became dark and then the colour of fire.

Red being the colour of fire and rage has occasionally inspired sports coaches to paint their home dressing room red to fire up their team for the battle ahead, while pale blue pastels may be thought to have a sedative effect on visiting teams.

The festival may still be called Leeds, but at Bramham Park, it's a shorter trip up the road to York, so it was good to see that the only York residents on, the spiky Colour Of Fire, managed to fill the Carling Stage early in the day with their brittle, punky melodies.

The top of the pie is now the colour of fire-damaged leather.

Why does Granny Weatherwax's cat, You, suddenly seem to be everywhere Tiffany goes, and once blazing with octarine (the colour of magic) fire?

In places, the canyon is just wide enough for a scattering of pine trees, the river and the roadway, its dark orange walls the colour of a fire's dying embers.

22 So the church is supported on all sides by a number of huge columns from that place, which in colour resemble flames of fire, some standing below and some above and others in the stoas which surround the whole church except on the side facing the east.

The entire convoy was captured, with the lone ship of the line, the Guipuzcoana, striking her colours after a perfunctory exchange of fire.