"Fire-eater" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma. But the hero sprang behind a rock—just in time, for the ground upon which he had been standing was turned to molten glass, like an overbaked pot, by the heat of the ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... terrible old fire-eater, I know," the Congressman admitted. "But Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most serious blow the South has received from the Abolitionists. And what makes it so difficult is that its appeal is not to reason. It is to ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon
... Georgia, ever a fire-eater, save in war,(88) vehemently denounced the opponents of the Cuba appropriation and the friends of "lands for the landless" as the "shivering in the wind of men of particular localities." This brought to his feet Senator ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... in a tone of exultant confidence, "we'll beat 'em. And now here comes that old Irish fire-eater. I'll go. No alliance, Dad, remember." His father nodded as Jack left the room, to return almost immediately with Mr. McGinnis, ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... chap," he said, "let's get out before we're torn to bits. There's no pleasure in staying with such a disagreeable fire-eater, anyhow. Come up to my room, and let ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
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