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  • And a deep red and dark green flame-like thing of a cypress tree shoves its way up into the living night, while the town sleeps below, with its roofs red and blue.

    the starry night. van Gogh Jerry Ratch 2011

  • The ring emits a blinding green light which envelops him with almost flame-like tendrils.

    DC’s Next, Green Lantern: A GKS Script « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008

  • Maybe I should have made it a flame-like structure instead.

    Bento #159 « Were rabbits 2008

  • His mane is geometricized into a flame-like halo, and the whole composition is surrounded by an Arabic inscription set on a vegetal ground.

    Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen JDsg 2006

  • His mane is geometricized into a flame-like halo, and the whole composition is surrounded by an Arabic inscription set on a vegetal ground.

    Archive 2006-08-01 JDsg 2006

  • And in his "Starry Night" the flame-like contours of a cypress ascend to meet the radiant night sky, mirroring, but in the far more powerful and dynamic forms of nature, the vertical lines of the diminutive church.

    Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision Mary Tompkins Lewis 2008

  • Very occasionally somebody's comment gets a tad too, ah, flame-like.

    A Blog Code of Conduct? Steve Hulett 2007

  • They stared in shock and silence at what appeared to be a wall of flame-like energy of every color, scorching across the cosmos in every direction.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • They stared in shock and silence at what appeared to be a wall of flame-like energy of every color, scorching across the cosmos in every direction.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • Very occasionally somebody's comment gets a tad too, ah, flame-like.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Steve Hulett 2007

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