21.   Some samples were so caustic that they burned like battery acid.

22.   That has gotten lost in the twitchy linemen, the fumbled snaps and the timeouts burned like votive candles.

23.   The facts that bombard us -- the broadcasts of famines, the wars burning like brushfires, the random bullets flying around the corner -- penetrate our inner lives.

24.   The midafternoon sun burned like a magnifying glass in the sky.

25.   The presence of the South African soldiers also triggered a day of looting and burning like none other in the history of Lesotho.

26.   Three weeks ago Billy Jack Gaither was beaten to death with an ax handle and burned like rubbish on a pile of old tires.

27.   Yet that cynicism burned like the spiritual fire of a true believer in him,

28.   Yet that cynicism burned like the spiritual fire of a true believer in him, fueling an obsessive quest to create, create, create.

29.   Firefighters said carpets and other building materials burned like tinder and emitted lethal fumes, quickly spreading death to conference rooms and the upper floors.

30.   One of the rescuers crawled out of the parallel shaft with his face covered with grime and dirt, his eyes burning like two coals of fire.