afire

Synonyymisanakirja

afire

sytytetty, hehkuva, liekehtivä, tulessa oleva, tulessa, liekeissä oleva, liekeissä.

Rimmaavat sanat

afire rimmaa näiden kanssa:

kiire, tulipalokiire, joulukiire, lähtökiire, työkiire, oire, tic-oire, iho-oire, ensioire, stressioire...

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Englannin sanakirja

afire englanniksi

1. On fire (often metaphorically).

2. c. 1611, (w), (w), Act I, Scene 2,^{http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=tempest&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl}

(..) 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 leap’d; cried, ‘Hell is empty

And all the devils are here.’

3. 1856, (w), (w), New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857, Seventh Book, p. 275,^{https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001426842}

(..) Earth’s crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God:

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5. 1931, (w) and w:Gordon Clifford (lyricist)|Gordon Clifford, “w:Paradise (1931 song)|Paradise” (song first sung by (w) and later covered by (w) and (w)),

Her eyes afire

With one desire.

Then a heavenly kiss:

Could I resist?

6. 1950, (w), w:Gormenghast (novel)|Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 63,

Old claw-like hands, cracked with long years of thankless toil, would hold aloft a delicate bird of wood, its wings, as thin as paper, spread for flight, its breast afire with a crimson stain.

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