A running series of questions were asked and answered; saddles were shaken out of gunny-sacks and cinched on waiting horses as though we were starting to a prairie fire.
The cook and horse-wrangler were included, and the activities of the outfit in saddling and getting away were suggestive of a prairie fire or a stampede.
Several times the rain ceased entirely, when the phosphorus, like a prairie fire, appeared on every hand.
Far off a dim splendour of pink testified to the existence of a prairie fire, while before me stood a gigantic Indian, with his big black head rising out of a pyramid of gorgeous robes, really dazzling to behold.
The smell of smoke grew stronger, and I knew there was a prairie fire burning to the westward.
They were fleeing from the great prairie fire of 1859, which swept Monterey County from side to side, and never stopped until it struck the river over in the next county.
The rage for land speculation was sweeping over Iowa like a prairie fire, getting things all ready for the great panic of 1857 that I have read of since, but of which I never heard until long after it was over.
As we sat on the gallery, grieving over this ruin of spring, Mrs. Gibbs gathered her two boys closer to her, as she shuddered over another experience with prairie fire, where her children were in peril.
When a prairie fire is raging at ten miles an hour, the hurricane lifts the tufts of loosened bunch grass, which in occasional clumps is longer than the rest, carrying it far beyond the main fire, and thus starting a new flame.
Natural history tells of nothing sadder than a buffalo herd overtaken by a prairie fire.
It would be the worst possible procedure to leave loose in the country so desperate a character as one who would deliberately start a prairie fire.
Mr. Carson, Dave and Mr. Bellmore also went before the Grand Jury and gave information about having seen Len starting a prairie fire.
The weed-grown bed of Grass River was swept as by a prairie fire.
There's a prairie fire sweeping in on this wind somewhere.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prairie fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
