flamefront

Updated: May 14, 2025

"They!" he said. "Oh, indeed, yes, a many and a many a time." He continued to gaze at the chair fascinated, magnetized; and for once in his life that continental stretch of dry prairie which stood for his imagination was afire, and across it was marching a slanting flamefront that joined its wide horizons together and smothered the skies with smoke.

Mark Twain - The American Claimant