A flaming pillar rose from the center of the room, and the fire began to lick the ceiling tentatively, as if it liked what it tasted.
She was arrested for setting fire to pillar-boxes in December 1911.
That reads: "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The Blood Moon theory has its roots in a passage in the Bible in Joel 2 31 which reads: "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
In January 1912 she received a six-month sentence for setting fire to a pillar-box (a British term for a pillar-shaped mailbox).
In an instant, the Republican Palace was a sea of fire and rising pillars of smoke lit with a spangling of brightly burning debris.
Readers will of course recognise biblical parallels here: the wandering in the wilderness, the pillar of fire.
Ballet Theater is presenting a revival of "Pillar of Fire" during its City Center season, which ends on Nov. 9.
In London they once formed a particularly distinctive ensemble comprising elegant red London buses (gone with the last of the Routemasters), pillar boxes, fire engines and guardsmen.
He comes in various guises – a pillar of fire, a cherub with wings, a horned demon, and even human form – but always exhibits the same disregard for others.
