Sentence examples for distant fires from inspiring English sources

The landscape quickly becomes intensely green, freckled occasionally by dusty shacks and distant fires.

Many African cultures believe stars are the distant fires of other peoples.

Distant fires, which we are used to, score the blue sky with a thin haze, like a watercolorist's brown wash.

On higher ground some parts remain oddly untouched, save for massive oaks lying in the road and huge plumes of smoke from various distant fires.

At first glance, the long procession of great auks in "Funk Island" winds, lemming-like, over a rocky landscape, toward the distant fires and cauldrons that signal their extinction as a species.

Distant fires and explosions can be seen through windows in some paintings, and the antique radio featured in "War News" implies that the artist is thinking less about Iraq than about the war that was going on during his boyhood in the 1940's.

There was an earthy smell of damp flowers and also the smell of the distant fire.

It is as if the distant fire escapes are inspired by Tom's desperate search for escape.

These thoughts sounded the way a distant fire alarm sounds in the middle of a warm bath.

We dutifully turn around and head for a bridge where we can see the lights of a Russian town burning on the horizon like a distant fire glow.

But still, like a faint smell of smoke from a distant fire, on a lovely clear September day, under the red, white and blue awnings and the fold-up tents, over the banana bread and the basil-spinach pesto, the small emblems of comfort and continuity, there it was.