1.   Flames licked the darkening sky.

2.   Soon the flames were licking at the curtains.

3.   Steam rises from the kettle and the pork chops sizzle, licked by flames from the dripping, igniting fat.

4.   Flames were already licking at the ceiling.

5.   Flames were already licking the ceiling.

6.   The flames licked around the wood, around the corpse.

7.   The flames were licking at the window.