Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
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Love isstrong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Bible (Old Testament)Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
Henry CisnerosHey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet? If ye were wauking I wad wait To gang to the coals i' the morning.
Adam SkirvingI said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.
I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.
pierre schaefferCarrying coals to Newcastle.
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
john majorIf thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Heap coals of fire upon his head.