Sentence examples for rivers of fire from inspiring English sources

Rivers of fire cascade down the mountainside, 2,100 degrees of molten rock.

Vast earth barriers did little to contain the rivers of fire and Zafferana remained in the path of destruction until, mercifully, Etna's lava ground to a halt on 27 May 1992, less than a kilometre from the town.

Beginning on Saturday afternoon, the fissures along the chain of craters that make up Kilauea's East Rift Zone, on the southern end of Hawaii's Big Island, created what resembled rivers of fire through the forest.

North Street to Madeira Drive, Fri Iain Aitch Reviving an ancient local tradition, this relatively new festival marks the death and rebirth of the sun with burning lanterns set atop high points, rivers of fire and, erm, a tea dance.

The streets began to flood, then came a spark and we saw rivers of fire in the streets," he said.

Fire and Airyaman will cause the metals of the mountains to melt and to flow down as a river of fire.

Alone among his Pre-Raphaelite fellows, he crossed what he himself termed "the river of fire" and threw himself into the socialist cause.

Unsworth's description of the conflagration that ensues, a river of fire "stinking and shrieking" and consuming everything in its path, brings to mind the fire and brimstone of the book of Genesis, the burning oil fields after the 1991 gulf war, the seemingly ever-present images of the charred remains of Iraqi civilians on the television news.

Like a river of fire.'.

In 2011, a procession of torch carriers including the Up Helly Aa' Vikings from Shetland is also planned, making a river of fire flowing up Calton Hill.

She wrote: "What had been a river of grass and sweet water that had given meaning and life and uniqueness to this enormous geography through centuries in which man had no place here was made, in one chaotic gesture of greed and ignorance and folly, a river of fire".