FLARE-UP • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Flare-up

"Flare-up" Quotes from Famous Books

... them both right if there was to be a flare-up—only I'm sure she'd drag me into it somehow. [CRIDDLE appears at door.] Please send and ask them at the Red Lion to saddle Captain Wentworth's horse and send it here ...

— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones

... have hitherto depicted Lord Scamperdale either in his great uncouth hunting-clothes or in the flare-up red and yellow Stunner tartan, it must not be supposed that he had not fine clothes when he chose to wear them, only he wanted to save them, as he said, to be married in. That he had fine ones, indeed, was evident ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... prints a certain number of notes per day, and destroys a smaller number, so as to have always in reserve a sufficient supply of new notes to meet any emergency; but the actual burning, the grand flare-up takes place only about once a month, when perhaps 150,000 will be burned at once. The French go down to lower denominations than the Rank of England, having notes of 100 francs and 50 francs, equivalent ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... bedroom—lest it should set fire to the cottage while she lay helpless. It seems that the hearth was so narrow and the grate so high that coals were a little apt to fall out on to the floor. Once, she said, there had almost been "a flare-up." It was when she was still getting about, and she had gone no farther away than into her garden to feed the fowls; but in that interval a coal fell beyond the fender, and she, returning, found the place full of smoke and the ...

— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt

... way of introduction to the story of an article that was not written. About the time the Pittsburg flare-up began to show itself in the papers, it occurred to us that some exposition of the situation there would be of value and interest to our readers. Before going about it, we debated it very carefully. Some of us in the office (and this magazine is edited by all of us) were ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine