Sentence examples for fires hung from inspiring English sources

The air was very still and the smoke from countless fires hung in the cold air.

The sky was low and grey and the smoke from last night's fires hung in the air.

The dwellers around him in the hamlet had also finished their dinners, and the smoke from cow-dung fires hung over the darkening roofs, a harsh spicy smell, like rough tobacco.

Smoke from dozens of fires hung over Baghdad as the city gave itself over to the looting, which spread from government warehouses and buildings, to hotels and private shops.

In 1939, of Everglades burned, and the black clouds of peat and sawgrass fires hung over Miami.

In Delhi, this destruction went on for so long that the smoke from the fires hung above the Indian capital.

A horrified messenger tells us, "Some of the flesh is fixed on spits and, set before slow fires, hangs dripping; other parts boiling waters tosses in heated kettles".

The smoke of the peat fire hung round us like a thin curtain.

Dad and the other dads killed it, doused it with kerosene, set it on fire, hung it up in automobile headlights for a while, and then served it as dog meat on linen-covered trays in their little restaurants.

A man accused of stabbing his wife to death and killing his four children in a house fire hanged himself in his jail cell, officials in Lebanon said.

The 1880s and 90s were characterised by "spectacle lynchings", as historians came to call them: public events at which white people gathered by the hundreds to watch victims, typically black men, get tortured, set on fire, hanged, castrated and/or dismembered on their way to death.