It ambled down the long central avenue of the tent-city where bonfires burned atop cairns of heaped rocks.

Above and to his right, beyond the stone lip of the harbor wall, a lamp burned steadily atop its pole, reflected in the water farther out.

Collins attempted to steer his plane to a safe landing, but it crashed and burned atop a nearby hospital, killing him and a passenger.

It burned, not on the shore, but atop a pyramidal shape on a stone island.

Three separate piles of wood burned atop the altar.

When he saw the torches still burning atop the ring of stones a shudder of relief went through him.

The white square represented the blocky altar set in the precise center of the temple, but the flame that burned atop that altar was no stylized representation.

The Olympic Flame was introduced to the modern Games in 1928 when it burnt atop a pillar above the stadium in Amsterdam.

The front room was dark but for the single oil lamp burning atop Macklin's desk.

"I keep the rules that serve His pleasure," Derfel said, gesturing toward the Presence Light burning atop the tabernacle on the little altar.