Sentence examples for touched fire from inspiring English sources

He feared having a bath and became aggressive if you touched him, jumping back as if he had touched fire".

Ennis jerked his hand away as though he'd touched fire, got to his knees, unbuckled his belt, shoved his pants down, hauled Jack onto all fours, and, with the help of the clear slick and a little spit, entered him, nothing he'd done before but no instruction manual needed.

During their date, Liz tries to pick Stewart up to stop him from touching fire.

"The minute they touched that fire escape we knew they were coming," Judge Wolff said.

"In our youth," he said, "our hearts were touched with fire.

And in the quiet of night, you will recall that your heart was once touched by fire.

It was a textbook situation — a bowl in the mountains filled with hard chaparral that had not been touched by fire in ninety-nine years.

Whose lovely ambition    Was that their lips, still touched with fire,    Should tell of the Spirit clothed from head to foot in song".

In our youths, our hearts were touched by fire.' Gregory Burke's magnificent Black Watch rips us out of our domestic comfort zone.

In a Memorial Day address to fellow veterans, in 1884, he attributed a certain value to the war experience: "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

In a 1993 book called "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament," the psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison argued that manic-depressive illness was the source of much of the best poetry produced from the eighteenth century to the twentieth.