"Afire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, Then all afire with me: the King's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair— Was the first man that leapt; cried 'Hell is empty, And all ...
— The Tempest • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... saw you on the hill, Campesino Garcia?' 'I saw beside the milking byre, White with want and black with mire, The little man with eyes afire Marshalling ...
— Songs of Action • Arthur Conan Doyle
... ever see anybody so excited?" demanded Bobolink. "Hold on! what's that he's saying now about somebody setting his store afire on purpose?" ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound - A Tour on Skates and Iceboats • George A. Warren
... until I knew that the crew were all at supper, and then stole out to the stern of the ship, raised one of the hatches carefully, and spreading some oakum on the top of a tar barrel set it afire and laid the hatch on again, after which I hurried back to my stateroom to await ...
— The Enchanted Island • Fannie Louise Apjohn
... hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing — and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to find me now and ask me that? If I were not their father and if you were not their mother, We might believe they made a noise. . . . What are you — ...
— The Three Taverns • Edwin Arlington Robinson
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