What is "set aflame"

Usage examples of "set aflame".

In numerous seaports, hulks were packed with flammables, stacked with the remains of victims, towed well out to sea, and set aflame.

Then he came upon the charred ruins of the ship that Liriel's magic had set aflame, and the remains of the vessel that he himself had scuttled, and he had no more time to devote to such musings.

The Sultan had many sons, and it was said that on that night, as each was set aflame, the cries were horrifying, for Raj Ahten waited until the child's cries died before he sent the flaming body over the castle walls.

Their hair seemed to have been set aflame, and their bodies were specimens of utter physical perfection.

This, we had hoped, would create a diversion, and lead the pirates, in the confusion and darkness, to assume that we were moving eastward, and that the Olivia had been set aflame by their own forces.

This, we had hoped, would create a diversion, and lead the pirates, in the confusion and darkness, to assume that we were moving eastward, and that the _Olivia_ had been set aflame by their own forces.

If he twitched his litrie finger at a maneven a mighty archmagethe man would die in agony, his blood set aflame.

The last Knights of the Vow perished there, and the battlements were torn down and what could be burned set aflame.

It occurred to him, too late, to specify that he wanted a mundane torch, an oil-soaked reed set aflame by sparks from flint and steel.

One of these men had certainly killed her mother and probably her younger sister, and set aflame the house in which she had been born.

Some of the converted Taltos tried to flee, and they were immediately cut down, and another vicious battle broke out, in which cottages and huts were set aflame and people ran hither and thither in panic, screaming for God to help us.

In the vicinity of the Hippodrome, the two women could see smokeplumes produced by bonfires which the gathering Blue and Green factions had set aflame to warm their toughs.

By tradition, the building was set aflame to honour the sacred passage of woman to wife and man to husband.

By tradition, the building was set aflame to honour thesacred passage of woman to wife and man to husband.

Now the ship of Buliwyf was set aflame, and pushed out into the sea, and the Northmen stood upon the rocky shore and made many invocations to their gods.