11.   After it is lighted, flames lick the structure and start to crackle.

12.   But they just held him there, and he watched the flames lick at his house.

13.   By the same token, he will not disappear into his bunker with a pistol while flames lick Belgrade.

14.   Flames lick the sides of my double-handled sauteuse.

15.   Flames licked in through cracks in the stairwell walls.

16.   Flames lick the ground as weapons clang furiously, and sexual cravings are blurted out with the fervent ecstasy of prayers.

17.   He crawled out on a ledge overlooking St. James Avenue, gripped the window sill with his right hand and watched the flames lick away his fingernails.

18.   The four watched flames lick at a hill in front of them.

19.   The flames licked the apartment building next door, forcing its three occupants to evacuate and destroying a motorcycle.

20.   Rebels and sweepers gathered around a bonfire of rubbish, letting the flames lick at a crumpled poster of President Mobutu Sese Seko.