Then flames were stabbing victoriously through the gullies as it juddered and began to sink down.

Suddenly there was a roar of gunfire, the flames stabbing across the roadway.

Small blue flames stabbed out of the reaction-control nozzles, lining it up for a landing on the crater wall.

A flame stabbed the night, and screeching birds rose from the treetops.

The flame from The Shadow's automatic stabbed through the pungent smoke that filled the room.

Here and there, purple flames shot up through the snow and stabbed toward the heavens.

The flame stabbed his wrist as he worked on the ropes.

More flames, hotter and longer, stabbed at him and missed.

Thirty yards from the first buildings, flame stabbed into the night.

Kicking my feet over, I fell on the downhill side of the bush and flame stabbed the night behind me, but I wasn't waiting.