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Like an enraged Queen she stood, one white, jewelled arm stretched forth menacingly, her bosom heaving, and her face aflame with wrath, but Theos, leaning against Sah-luma's couch, heard her with as much impassiveness as though her threatening voice were but the sound of an idle wind.
On the afternoon following his arrival at the camp, as he and the young woman walked over the hills aflame with autumnal splendor, Gloria told of her bitter disappointment.
One day thereafter in the local G.A.R. he commented unfavorably upon the indifference which he deemed had been shown. "There wouldn't have been half so much delay if the man hadn't been a deserter," said one of his enemies one who was a foreman in Palmer's shipyard. Instantly Burridge was upon his feet, his eyes aflame with feeling.
After dinner Sir Wilfrid Bury found Lady Coryston in a secluded corner, deep in the evening papers which had just arrived. He sat down beside her. "Well, how are you feeling?" "If we could but revive the duel!" said Lady Coryston, looking up with eyes aflame. "Gracious! For what and whom? Do you want to shoot your future son-in-law for taking her from you?" "Who Marcia?
Are you willing to run the risk of rebuke, and perchance some small unpleasantness at the hands of the keepers of the prison, to give this great joy to Anthony?" Freda's face was all aflame with her joy. In a moment she had, with her sister's aid, so transformed herself that none would have guessed her other than the servant of Arthur, carrying a load for his master.
Whenever she had mentioned his name in the narrative, it was with a slight inflection of scorn, which caused the King to smile; and when she spoke of the ruin of Enderby House, her brother's death and her father's years of exile, tears came into the Queen's eyes, and the King nodded his head in sympathy. Sir Richard Mowbray, with face aflame, watched her closely.
"The light usually breaks in the East," Coombe answered. "It is breaking in the West to-day. It has always been there and it has been spreading from the first. At any moment it may set the sky aflame." For as time had gone on the world had beheld the colossal spectacle of a huge nation in the melting pot.
Judith, a fragment of a religious poem, is aflame with the spirit of war. One of its lines tells how a bird of prey "Sang with its horny beak the song of war." This very line aptly characterizes one of the emphatic qualities of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The poems often describe battle as if it were an enjoyable game.
Hilliard in a stage whisper of Ruth, whose face went suddenly aflame. "The widow would make the fortune of any Midway, Ross," Joe Hilliard chuckled, digging Shelby in the ribs. "Woe, woe, woe," chanted the widow, spurred to anathema by derision. "Woe upon scorners! Woe upon them that sit in the seats of scorners!
The image of Josephine is constantly soaring around him, and he pours forth ebullitions of frantic devotion at the cannon's mouth, in the Canton, anywhere, and everywhere. He is as rich in phrase as he is in courage and resource. He finds time to scrawl a few burning words of passion which indicate that his soul is at once aflame with thoughts of her and the grim military task he has undertaken.
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