It quickly swelled into the shape of a gigantic question mark, the middle of which was a vivid crimson, and as this thunderhead-like column billowed upward through the sky, she could see a red ball of fire at its core.

-Agawa, Hiroyuki
  Of the atomic explosion, Hiroshima. Haru no shiro (Citadel in Spring, translated by Lawrence Rogers), ch.9.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.67^70.

Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions To all musicians, appear and inspire: Translated Daughter, come down and startle Composing mortals with immortal fire.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Anthem for St Cecilia's Day'.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.23,'Of  Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

The Fire Next Time.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  Title of book of essays. Baldwin took the phrase from the traditional spiritual,'Home in the Rock'.

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, öEvery nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule.

-Ballads
'A Lyke- Wake Dirge', opening lines.

   It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
  The Faithful Friends, act1.

Then the L rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the L out of heaven.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis19:24.

   And the angel of the L appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, thebushburnedwithfire,andthebushwasnotconsumed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus 3:2.

And the L went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus13:21.

And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORD1 Kings19:11^12.

Behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of 92 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 2:11^12.

Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:27^8.

If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 25:21^2.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 26:20.

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 43:1^2.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat uponeach ofthem. And they wereall filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 2:1^4.

   For our God is a consuming fire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews12:29.

Even so thetongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:5.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole 1Timothy body, and setteth on firethe course of nature; and it isset on fire of hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:6.