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Blaze away   /bleɪz əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Blaze away

verb
1.
Perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly.
2.
Shoot rapidly and repeatedly.  Synonym: blaze.
3.
Speak with fire and passion.






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"Blaze away" Quotes from Famous Books



... fluttering over my head, and get out of the swamp as fast as I could, when I heard the distant report of a gun, and said to myself, "Well, I'll give the nondescript five minutes more, and if it doesn't turn up by then, I'll blaze away at the pigeons." Half the allotted time had barely elapsed, when another report broke the stillness of the morning, and immediately afterwards I heard a rustling among the mangrove-leaves, and a slight crackling, ...
— Australian Search Party • Charles Henry Eden

... the breath out of me body," admitted Freckles. "Seems that her father has taught her to shoot. The Bird Woman told her distinctly to lie low and blaze away high, just to help scare them. The spunky little thing followed them right out into the west road, spitting lead like hail, and clipping all around the heads and heels of them; and I'm damned, sir, if I believe ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter

... percussion-caps an' a bullet-mould about wi' you wherever you go. As to powder, why, you'll come across that 'most everywhere, an' lead too; and, for the matter o' that, if your life depended on it you could shove a handful of gravel or a pen-knife or tooth-pick into your gun an' blaze away, but with a breech-loader, if you run out o' cartridges, ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne

... and a slowmatch in the bundle," replied Uncle Ben, as he pushed off. "Now blaze away, and don't burn ...
— The Boat Club - or, The Bunkers of Rippleton • Oliver Optic



Words linked to "Blaze away" :   perform, do, execute, blast, speak, performing arts, shoot, address, blaze



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