Sentences with phrase «flamed over the sky»

Not exact matches

Fires have been reported at over 80 locations in the country, including an oil refinery in Ichihara, near Tokyo, where huge balls of flame reached into the sky after natural gas storage tanks were set ablaze.

On September 29, the flames of a Long March - 2FT1 rocket lit the night sky over the Gobi Desert as China launched its Tiangong - 1 space lab, a first step toward the construction and deployment of an orbiting manned space station by 2020.

But he had felt that night, while his wife kept the children over by the road — he had rushed them from the house when he saw that the barn was on fire — as he watched the enormous flames flying into the nighttime sky, then heard the terrible screaming sounds of the cows as they died, he had felt many things, but it was just as the roof of his house crashed in, fell into the house itself, right into their bedrooms and the living room below with all the photos of the children and his parents, as he saw this happen he had felt — undeniably — what he could only think was the presence of God, and he understood why angels had always been portrayed as having wings, because there had been a sensation of that — of a rushing sound, or not even a sound, and then it was as though God, who had no face, but was God, pressed up against him and conveyed to him without words — so briefly, so fleetingly — some message that Tommy understood to be: It's all right, Tommy.