"On fire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... small forts on the continent, the largest of which was called Goa. On the second day of April the commodore began to batter and bombard the island, fort, and fort Goa, at the same time. That of Severndroog was set on fire; one of the magazines blew up; a general conflagration ensued; the garrison was overwhelmed with fire and confusion; the English seamen landed un der cover of the fire from the ships, and took the place by storm, with very little loss. The other forts were immediately surrendered, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... proclaime reliefe unto the poore; Assembled them unto a private Barne, And, having lockt the doore, set it on fire, Saying hee'de rid the countrie of such Mice: And Mice and Rats have rid him ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... Society's Manchu-Tartar programme. He was probably bewildered by the fierce energy of its honest and compelling agent, who had descended upon St Petersburg to do the Society's bidding with an impetuosity and determination foreign to Russian official life. Borrow was on fire with zeal and impatient of the ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins
... that has fallen from the lips of every professor in his leviathan note book; and his desk teems with reports of all the hospital cases, from the burnt housemaid, all cotton-wool and white lead, who set herself on fire reading penny romances in bed, on one side of the hospital, to the tipsy glazier who bundled off his perch and spiked himself upon the area rails on the other. He becomes a walking chronicle of pathological ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... come on fire, An' burn almos' down to de groun', So w'at you t'ink our man can do Wit' ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
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