take fire

Even the Tuam story did not take fire immediately, when it broke two weeks ago.

But at that insult Garnache's brain seemed to take fire, and his cautious resolutions were reduced to ashes by the conflagration.

The Dowager turned to Fortunio, who had approached her, and her eyes seemed to take fire at something that he told her.

The bourgeois of Nantes turned around sharply and saw the heaped-up combustibles under the gridiron beginning to take fire.

If indeed Europe do take fire, as is likely at Seville or elsewhere—But in the meanwhile how happy if negotiation would but serve!

If this air be confined by mercury, it will take fire on being admitted to atmospheric, and much more to dephlogisticated air.