From Mr. World and Miss Church-Member by William Shuler Harris, 1903.

"The death-fires danced at night," from The Blue Poetry Book, edited by Andrew Lang, 1891.

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From an ad in The Saturday Evening Post, 1839.

"Blazes: How to Put Them Out," from American Newspaper Directory, 1891.

"The fire instantly blazed up," from The Adventures of a Stowaway by Frederick J. Whishaw, 1897.

"Seven or eight times they passed through the fire," from The Dacoit's Treasure by Henry Charles Moore, 1897.

"A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast," from Ia by Q. [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.

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Campfires and hearth fires are connected through what physicists now call "quantum entanglement," as we see in The Hudson by Wallace Bruce and illustrated by Alfred Fredericks, 1894.

"'It burns bravely,' laughed the old woman."  From Bladys of the Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould and illustrated by F. H. Townsend, 1897.

"That sail will never put you under the water again."  Or, to quote Jeremiah 21:10, "And he shall burn it with fire."

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From Funny Books for Boys and Girls, 1856.

An illustration from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1888).  The caption reads: "'Now,' cried I, holding up my children, 'now let the flames burn on, and all my possessions perish.'"

An illustration from The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H. Rider Haggard (1911).  The caption reads: "Guided, guarded by the spirits of dead suns."

An illustration from Parents and Children (1873).  The caption reads: "In a moment Maurice was on fire!"

An illustration from She by Henry Rider Haggard.  The caption reads: "I saw the fire run up her form."

An illustration from She by Henry Rider Haggard.  The caption reads: "Curse her!  May she be everlastingly accursed!"

An illustration from an 1850 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1897 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from an 1878 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.  The caption reads: "In love with an automaton. — Through the stifling cloud of bituminous smoke, he scarcely perceived what manner of being it was.  He caught it up in his arms, and bore it through the passage, and down the stairs."