bonfire
Speech parts
1. bonfire - Noun
2. bonfire - Verb
Meaning
A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
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Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
Imagine the books burning. And tapes and films and files, radios and televisions, will all go into that same bonfire. All those libraries and bookstores blazing away in the night. People will attack microwave relay stations. People with axes will chop every fiber-optic cable.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
Never watch a bonfire wearing a straw coat.