of the loose piles of wood, it penetrated every where with
its subtle, far-reaching power, till within the ship the  broadened
and widened, the central  of  enlarged its borders, and the
floods of flame that flowed from it rushed with consuming wordnetanger through
the whole body of the ship.

Glowing with bright lustre, increasing in that brightness every moment,
leaping up as it consumed and flashing vividly as it leaped up. A
thousand tongues of flame streamed upward through the crannies of the
gaping deck, and between the wide orifices of the planks and timbers the
dazzling flames gleamed; a thousand resistless arms seemed extended
forward to grasp the fabric now completely at its , and the hot
breath of the  shriveled up all in its path before yet its hands
were laid upon it.

And fast and furious, with eager advance, the flames rushed on devouring
everything. Through the hatchway, around which the fiercest 
gathered, the stream of flame rose impetuously on high, in a straight
upward torrent, hurling up a vast pyramid of  to the ebon skies, a
[Greek: phlogos migan pogona] which, like that which once illumed the
Slavonic strait with the signal- first caught from burning Troy,
here threw its radiance far over the deep.

While the lighter wood lasted the flame was in the ascendant, and nobly