It must have been the glitter of those spangles in the bright flames issuing from the steamboat's funnel which had attracted his attention.

It seemed that each face was eyeless, with tongue-shapen flames issuing voluminously from deep orbits beneath the slanted brows.

Before the black-armored image there hung seven silver lamps, wrought in the form of horses' skulls, with flames issuing changeably in blue and purple and crimson from their eye-sockets.

Then came the clearly audible shatter-sound of breaking glass and the dragon froze in place with billows of flame issuing from its mouth and nostrils, as well as from the gills on the sides of its armored throat.

Perilously close to the heating system - a bent copper gas pipe with jets of flames issuing from it - two dark men were sitting around a mountain of food with beer, vodka and whisky bottles, mostly empty.

Another myth is that of the water bull who appears from the depths with "fiery horns and hoofs with flames issuing out of its nostrils".

The flame issuing from the funeral pile on which martyrs die an heroic death for their ideas is, in its way, as awe-inspiring as the flame from Sinai's height.

This was the banner of the Lord of Burgundy, which consisted of a white field charged with two bundles of red laurel branches in the form of an X, with flames issuing from the intersection: the Cross of Burgundy.

Her iconic forms depict her with flames issuing forth from her head.

In the process of transforming the dragon's fiery breath to explosive fireworks, Akabar's spell snuffed the upper flames issuing from her maw, but the fireworks pierced deeper into the heart of the hill.