But Adam did not crave it, Nor the flight he wouldn't brave it, Singing:--"Air and Water, Earth and
Fire, What more can mortal man desire?"(The Apple Tree's in bloom.)
There is a proper season for making attacks with
fire, and special days for starting a conflagration.
Fire Eater has sneezed and this is a sign that he feels sorry for you.
"If you please, sir," said Joyce, "if I see anyone, am I to
fire?"
For a little way the glare of my
fire lit the path.
At a glance D'Artagnan saw there was nothing to be feared from the
fire, and sprang to the window.
So the man listened to her words, and the woman dwelt there, and brought the wood and kindled the
fire, till one day her husband said to her, 'It is now two years since you died.
The king looked at him, and as the youth pleased him, he said: 'You may ask for three things to take into the castle with you, but they must be things without life.' Then he answered: 'Then I ask for a
fire, a turning lathe, and a cutting-board with the knife.'
At the door of the hut certain councillors seized me by the arms and dragged me towards the
fire. But I broke from them, and prostrating myself, for my arms were free, I praised the king and called him by his royal names.
"Colonel," he said, addressing Rostov's enemy with an air of gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, "there is an order to stop and
fire the bridge."
It seems that each green warrior has certain objective points for his
fire under relatively identical circumstances of warfare.
About midnight this work ended without accident, but at the cost of most severe exertion, and the trio partook of a luncheon of pemmican and cold punch, as the doctor had no more
fire to place at Joe's disposal.
