Whipping flame lashed after him, but Quill was clear.
The crystal staff in his hands dipped, and from it, snake-tongued flame lashed downward at the recoiling Emperor-and shattered on the golden globe about him.
But how they acted and reacted below decks, one fire-stratum playing into the other, by its nature and the art of man, now when all hands ran raging, and the flames lashed high over shrouds and topmast: this let not History attempt.
Violet-white flame lashed after the attacker.
Dropping back from the metal door, where flames were lashing in from the sides, Ferret gave a scream when he saw that fire surrounded him, and hurled himself flat on his face, trying to burrow under the unwrecked crates.
The scouring flames lashed the very stones into rum.
Patterns of colored lights ran up and down its length, and monochromatic flames lashed from the tip, as Gina's fingertips ran over the contact-sensitive keyboard.
More blue flame lashed across the flat ledge, beginning about twenty yards from the red sandstone cliff holding the quarters and stables and moving southward.