`` Hold your fire '', Montero was shouting.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.

Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

The wind from the Rhine was damp and chill, necessitating a fire for warmth.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.

The fire in the sitting room was lighted.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

Then he was to co-ordinate his fire with a radar-controlled shore gun firing white tracers.

It was in 1814 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager fire in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place even then.

Most of the fire was directed by Cotten against Dallas and Sen. Parkhouse.

A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.

Police said the children's mother, Mrs. Eleanor Somerville, was visiting next door when the fire occurred.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.

He got a small fire started and put on bacon and coffee.

There, he started a great fire and threw his scabbard into the flames.

Nevertheless, as Russians opened fire, they started to run away again.

A fire is soon started in the laboratory, killing Lobo.

Evidence of fire is inconclusive, as wildfires started by lightning-strikes are still common in East Africa and other wild areas, and it is difficult to determine when fire was first used for cooking, as opposed to just being used for warmth or for keeping predators away.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

As the authorities in Rome were anxious to contain the fire started by Luther, the Bishop of Constance denied any support of Sanson and he was recalled.

* 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire is a forest fire that started in the northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado and spread over 18, 500 acres.

Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.

* 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

During his tenure as archbishop, Mellitus supposedly performed a miracle in 623 by diverting a fire that had started in Canterbury and threatened the church.

Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

The 1916 fire started around 5 p. m. on March 21, 1916.

When Flaherty returned to Toronto with 70, 000 feet of film, the nitrate film stock was ignited in a fire started from his cigarette, in his editing room.

Once World War I started in 1914, the Goetheanum volunteers could hear the sound of cannon fire beyond the Swiss border, but despite the war, people from all over Europe worked peaceably side by side on the building's construction.

A signaler started a fire on an elevation typically using damp grass, which would cause a column of smoke to rise.

The exact cause of the fire remains uncertain, but much of the population of Rome suspected that Emperor Nero had started the fire himself.

This time was chosen so that when the spacecraft started to fly over Africa, which was when the retrorockets would need to fire for reentry, the solar illumination would be ideal for the orientation system's sensors.

In mid-1840, a large fleet of war ships appeared on the China coast and with the first cannon fire aimed at a British ship, the Royal Saxon, the British started the first of the Opium Wars.