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adverb

Ablaze adv., adj.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. "All ablaze with crimson and gold."

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. "The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos."

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Etymology of 'Ablaze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ablaze" Quotes from Famous Books

... Last Christmas Eve and all Christmas Day Jurgis had toiled on the killing beds, and Ona at wrapping hams, and still they had found strength enough to take the children for a walk upon the avenue, to see the store windows all decorated with Christmas trees and ablaze with electric lights. In one window there would be live geese, in another marvels in sugar—pink and white canes big enough for ogres, and cakes with cherubs upon them; in a third there would be ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... nearly empty, she left the theatre alone. Then she engaged a carriage—of which there were very, very few in that city of the mountains, where the people did most of their going and coming on horseback—and had herself conveyed to her home, ablaze with light and full of laughter; and bidding the driver wait, she entered quietly and went swiftly to her own apartment, where a man in slippers and dressing-gown sat in a big armchair, sleeping over the ...

— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris

... seemed all ablaze from its fiery red color, and the threatening fury throned upon his lowering forehead would almost have annihilated him who encountered it for the first time. As it was, the two boys suddenly straightened their ...

— Oonomoo the Huron • Edward S. Ellis

... tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer. Far Within I kneel before you, speechless yet, And life ablaze ...

— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell

... to put the external beauties of Mohonk upon paper. The estate covers four thousand acres, and is intersected with about fifty miles of fine carriage drives. The garden, which contains a dozen acres, is ablaze during the most of the season with millions of flowers—many of them of rare variety. As the glory of Saratoga is its springs, of Lake George its islands, of Trenton Falls the amber hue of its waters, so the glory of Mohonk is its rocks. The ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

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