Sentence examples for sheet of fire from inspiring English sources

"The landing," says the astronaut, understandably animated by the memory, "is like being immersed in a sheet of fire, a comet, a shooting star".

At Sakai Bridge, which would take them across to the East Parade Ground, they saw that the whole community on the opposite side of the river was a sheet of fire; they dared not cross and decided to take refuge in Asano Park, off to their left.

"The show began with a tremendous discharge of cannon; and then, for 20 minutes or half an hour, the whole castle was one incessant sheet of fire and labyrinth of blazing wheels of every color, size and speed," he wrote in 1845.

The space capsule that will fly cargo and people is called Dragon and Musk's eventual plan is for it to land under its own rocket power - "landing on a sheet of fire like a real dragon," he says.

A hinged panel piece by Shane Aslan Selzer adheres to a traditional free-standing folding-screen model, though its decorative implications are belied by its materials: a stainless-steel framework filled with stretched sheets of fire-repellent "emergency foil".

Once the fabric catches fire, it becomes a sheet of flame that can easily overwhelm the fire-suppression properties of treated foam.

"Dance of the Flaming Coke" is a contemporary version of the fierce beauties of Hades, where a man in front of a sheet of flame spars with a snarling fire.

When a full broadside was fired, "the resulting sheet of flame was big enough to create the impression that a battle cruiser had blown up; it was awe inspiring".

Artillery fire from Marye's Heights and Willis Hill, along with a "sheet of flame" from infantry behind that wall, decimated Union ranks.

As the German ship fired her 15-inch shells, Mr Briggs, high on the compass platform, saw a vast sheet of flame blow up in front of him.

There were those who died from radiation burns or in the sheets of fierce fire that consumed whole blocks.