Sentence examples for columns of fire from inspiring English sources
The canyons serve as chimneys, and in minutes whole mountains are aflame, resembling volcanoes, emitting high columns of fire and smoke.
This is what the Biblical scholar James Kugel refers to as the "starkness" of the Hebrew Bible, a bare, hard world in which a desert landscape of rocks and rare streams is briefly lit up by columns of fire.
Eyewitnesses describe a fighter jet dropping the device, a low explosion, followed by columns of fire and smoke.
At midnight, the column of fire and cloud, the vast toxic fir tree, was 19 miles high.
He was awed by the majesty of the column of fire, which was at least eight miles in diameter and fifty miles high.
She roared into the heavens a fortnight ago atop a column of fire, enthralling a million spectators as she set off on her final voyage.
This is the moment a twisting column of fire shot into the sky after a Missouri farmer set his field alight.
We have much to thank 30 years of the shuttle for and it will be a bittersweet moment this week as we watch the last one leave for space on a column of fire and smoke.
Most telling of all was an accident at the huge oil field at Tengiz, near the Caspian: in June , 1985 ten months before Chernobyl, there was a well blowout that sent a column of fire six hundred feet into the air, higher than the Northern Lights; it burned for more than a year, until a team of American specialists were called in to contain it.
Or do we discreetly dispose of the rocket, make a melted and scorched patch on the lawn, and greet the kids tomorrow morning with the news that we heard a roar in the night and looked out to see a column of fire ascending to the stars?
That created a column of fire which then detached itself to form a floating, quivering fireball.Now, Dr Jerby and Dr Dikhtyar have teamed up with Brian Mitchell of the University of Rennes and his colleagues at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a giant X-ray machine in France, to analyse the structure of their fireballs.
