Aflare

Upwards, now, in silence, the two men climbed until at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (1977)

He used to tell me about how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate. ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)

From the town below, where here and there a window went suddenly aflare with the reflection of the sunset-light, there drifted up to them the faint, clear call of a bugle. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)

Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces, ❋ Unknown (1918)

As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors — yellows, whites, pinks. ❋ Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (1917)

After watching Richard with the anxious sympathy of one ineffectual for another, it said: "Let me," and kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment. ❋ Stella Benson (1912)

Morning dawned, aflare with light and color, as only a June morning in that semitropic wilderness could glow. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

A tiny blaze appeared and rapidly grew until the surrounding forest was aflare. ❋ Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1905)

All the earth spirits leapt up with flaming torches and the whole land was aflare. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

Drums beating, trumpets blowing, torches aflare, the English freebooter marched straight to the market. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Now the fire was low enough, but the room seemed aflare with myrtle tapers. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

Instantaneously half a hundred lights were aflare. ❋ Unknown (1903)

As he looked all about him and pondered upon the mystic gloom, he began to believe that at any moment the ominous distance might be aflare, and the rolling crashes of an engagement come to his ears. ❋ Unknown (1895)

His own emblem, quivering and aflare, was winging toward the other. ❋ Unknown (1895)

The sky was heavy with drifting masses of cloud, aflare with red and gold and all the sunset colours, from the black line of coast, lying in the west, far into the east, where sea and sky were turning gray. ❋ Norman Duncan (1893)