The flames were lapping at the outside of the building, crawling over the inside walls.

John Frederick, 45 years old, stubbornly remained at home to hose water against his log house as flames lapped 10 feet away.

Dying flames lapped at the smoldering body lying on the floor.

Indeed, peculiar greenish flames were lapping through the entire building.

A small flame lapped against his arm and he jerked away, the pain helping to clear his head.

Little flames lapped the grass but were quickly extinguished in the humid soil.

I was running for my life, as if the flames of hell were lapping at my heels.

The papers also say that people have had to flee their apartments as flames lapped at their windows.

The flames from the tank beside Dimitri murmured and lapped.

Now flames again lapped greedily from the tunnel, boring through the remainder of the ice.