A blaze outside the tents affected passion

Usage examples of campfire.

They rode out past the pickets and campfires of Cambridge and at Framingham stopped to see for themselves the guns from Ticonderoga, Adams making careful note of the inventory--58 cannon ranging in size from 3- and 4-pounders to one giant 24-pounder that weighed more than two tons.

Space and Prinz squatted near the campfire, too excited to drinking balche, the Mayan drink compound of bark and honey fermented in water, and they were slightly intoxicated.

They set camp in a clearing up above the bogland and skeletal trees that marked the region of Tymwyvenne, taking little care to conceal their campfire.

I cooked those cobia steaks over a campfire with corn oil, butter, and lemon juice, and that became the first recipe I ever sold to a newspaper.

Haltingly she began to sing it, her voice reflected in the gentle crackling of the campfire, the pulsing of the flames that licked the blade of Daystar Clarion.

Here I am, I thought, sitting in the dark with strangers, laughing out loud at cowboys farting around a campfire.

He had written a song for them to sing together at the great bonfire, and he had drawn her aside, away from the clustered campfires, to practice its intricate harmonies and rhythms.

It was campfire stories, it was ghost tales around the hostel fires in deep winter: other riders had objected just to the telling of the story with the horses at hand.

What a fine story this will make, told around every campfire between Hurria and Egypt.

He could see Jiggers hobbling around the campfire, starting breakfast.

August campfire, he and Majid had talked to bin Laden and Zawahiri about the global struggle against imperialists and crusaders, of how they are all guided by the will of Allah, how the coming months would be days of great change and excitement.

He included the campfires started with a gesture, Blue Wing, the slaying of Slaney, the tricking of Orthal, and the freeing of the captive women, ending with the organizing of the company and its training.

Threading quickly through a confusing maze of tents and flickering campfires, Picardy was acutely aware of the curious stares that traced her steps.

I took in a number of Nomad Campfires --in Detroit, they burned scrap lumber-- and listened to stories of pirates and Road Runners and feuds and radical rigs, threads in the fabric of Nomad lore.

It was a constant irritation to her, like a burr under a saddlecloth, and her only consolation was the embroidered shawl that Lilanthe had given her, which she wrapped around her shoulders every night as they sat round the campfire talking and singing.