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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
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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
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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
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“All right,” Jose said, approaching the truck with the blue-flamed torch in hand.
Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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