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Example sentences for "live coal"

  • That glowing bodies, such as a live coal, brought near excited amber discharge its power.

  • This metal, like Gold, begins to flow when it is so thoroughly penetrated by the fire as to appear ignited like a live coal.

  • Gold does not begin to flow till it be red-hot like a live coal.

  • These crystals are most violently caustic: applied to the skin they quickly affect it much as a live coal would; they produce a blackish eschar, corroding and entirely destroying the parts they touch.

  • These crystals will be of a brownish colour, and deflagrate on a live coal.

  • We read that Richardson had prepared his tongue in such a manner, that he could hold on the point of it a live coal, covering it first with pitch, rosin, and sulphur, and could hold a piece of ignited iron between his teeth.

  • The Mémoires de l'Académie state, that a person who is salivated can put a live coal in his mouth.

  • These were the tongs used for lifting a live coal to light the pipe, to which I have referred on a previous page.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are you; clearly shown; could talk; dense jungle; directly proportional; drain well; facial angle; literal sense; live according; live after the flesh; live again; live coal; live coals; live forever; live like; live through; live together; live upon; live with; lived here; lives lost; lives were; livestock production; mental work; perfectly beautiful; sixty pounds