Sentence examples for perpetual fire from inspiring English sources

There burned the perpetual fire of the public hearth attended by the Vestal Virgins.

A perpetual fire was indeed maintained in Hera's temple, but it had no role in the ancient Games.

Traditional Natchez religion venerated the Sun, which was represented by a perpetual fire kept burning in a temple.

The Prytaneum, a building in the northwest corner of the Altis, contained a hearth on which burned a "perpetual fire"; it also had a banquet room in which the Olympic victors were feasted.

Their duties included tending the perpetual fire in the Temple of Vesta, keeping their vow of chastity, fetching water from a sacred spring (Vesta would have no water from the city water-supply system), preparing ritual food, caring for objects in the temple's inner sanctuary, and officiating at the Vestalia (June 7 15), the period of public worship of Vesta.

At the performance on Tuesday night a malfunction prevented the set from creating the proper configuration for the final scene between the title character and Brunnhilde, when Siegfried awakens her from sleep amid perpetual fire around her and they sing a love duet, the Met said in a statement.

The clothes look cheap, the sales tags are huge, and the inventory is cluttered onto racks as if the place were in perpetual fire-sale mode.

Consequently, the International Monetary Fund is in perpetual fire-alarm mode, giving struggling countries huge bailout packages, which usually fail: Argentina blew through tens of billions of dollars in bailout money before it defaulted.

It recasts a complex strategic vulnerability as a cartoon: an entire city facing a perpetual firing squad.

Rikers used to be famous for its rats and the perpetual fires which burned in the dumps tells how these problems have been settled.

The correct metaphor for Trump's candidacy is not an implosion but Springfield's perpetual tire fire from The Simpsons an ugly, smelly blaze that nonetheless refuses to go out.