Sentence examples for powers of fire from inspiring English sources

Polluted persons or things may be rubbed with ashes or soot, and polluted objects may be boiled, subject to the double purificatory powers of fire and water.

The widespread use of incense smoke in purification rites is based on the transforming powers of fire, as well as on the additional purificatory powers of sweet smells.

Only they're like magic samovars with the power of fire hoses.

In addition to drawing massive pencil-on-canvas portraits of firemen, he remains obsessed with the destructive power of fire.

That first bonfire demonstrated the power of fire as a creative, as well as a destructive force.

The cleansing power of fire is exactly what we need to say good riddance to this relentlessly dreadful year.

Born in the American oil capital of Houston, Texas, as soon as he could toddle, he witnessed the power of fire in the workshop of his blacksmith father, Charles.

Huahua Xiao, an assistant research scientist, who conducted experiments on fire whirls along with Michael J. Gollner and Elaine S. Oran, said, "We wanted to harness the power of fire whirls for good".

No matter how futuristic our appliances, the act of cooking will for ever be "an old, old thing: using the transformative power of fire to make things taste better".

His rendering of the scene is unsparing, "as her hair / goes up in a rush, as her fingers char, / as the spit on her tongue bubbles and froths, as she browns from heel / to head …" In her case, perhaps, the destructive power of fire is also one of regeneration, a harrowing of the body to purify the spirit: "In the fire lies your salvation, Anne, they said.

The attraction of a magnet is mysterious, she insists, but so is the power of fire, and the "Knowledge we have of several things" is on a par.