fire-eater

Example Sentences

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The papers were full of stories about these Southern “fire-eaters,” as they called themselves.

From Literature

At these multi-weekend events, artisans sold jewelry, candles and clothing; musicians played lutes and flutes; and fire-eaters, jugglers, acrobats and jousters performed feats of medieval derring-do.

From Washington Post

You pass a fire-eater elevated on a striped platform.

From Literature

As before there are chapter-length portraits of key players: the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, the South Carolina fire-eater who caned him, and Thaddeus Stevens, radical Republican and implacable foe of slavery.

From The Guardian

The fire-eater, amused, yelled at Salvador to catch his little brother before he ran south all the way to Mexico City.

From Literature