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  • There was, instead, a buffet with tired-looking lasagna set over blue-flamed tins of Sterno, and a disc jockey who played “Maneater,” which, even at eleven, struck me as highly inappropriate.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • There was, instead, a buffet with tired-looking lasagna set over blue-flamed tins of Sterno, and a disc jockey who played “Maneater,” which, even at eleven, struck me as highly inappropriate.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • There was, instead, a buffet with tired-looking lasagna set over blue-flamed tins of Sterno, and a disc jockey who played “Maneater,” which, even at eleven, struck me as highly inappropriate.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • “All right,” Jose said, approaching the truck with the blue-flamed torch in hand.

    Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008

  • He was through it at last, inside a black-walled, black-floored circular room lit with blue-flamed candles, and there were more doors all around him - he needed to go on - but which door ought he to take - '?

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • He was waiting in his small audience chamber, dimly lit by two blue-flamed candles, lounging at ease on his black silk-covered couch.

    The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Tollman would never kindle the fire that burned deep and blue-flamed in his wife's nature.

    The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • The inmates of the carriage never saw the bridge as the vehicle swayed from side to side in the blue-flamed lightning flashes.

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

  • Vanadium nitrogenase, an enzyme that normally produces ammonia from nitrogen gas, can also convert carbon monoxide (CO), a common industrial byproduct, into propane, the blue-flamed gas found on stoves across America.

    Disinformation 2010

  • In my case, it evolved from the living room to the kitchen, from the twinkly tree to the blue-flamed stove, and from tissue-wrapped stuffed bears to foil-tented roasted turkeys.

    Orangette 2010

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