1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lxvii. 318 A flaming chapel was constructed at the entrance of the house.

1918 V. Drake Above Battle vi. 118 These ‘flaming onions’ were huge rockets of balls of phosphorus which burst at the top of their climb and spread out into a great umbrella shaped curtain of flame, and sank slowly down, the idea being that any machine in its path would be instantly set fire to by the burning phosphorus.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Flaming onions, a colloquial name for a German anti-aircraft projectile.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xxii. 384 One of the flying-boats..came into a heavy barrage of ‘flaming onions’.

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 32 Flaming onions, tracer fire from the ground.

1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 57 Red Blisters..And flaming Carbuncles.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 290 Who, distant, burns in flaming torrid climes.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 354 As some labourer..Under a flaming sun.

1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall xv Yes, by God, I'll get flaming drunk.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 32 The wind less'ned, and weather grew flaming hot.

1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 111 Flaming-hot Disputer.

1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 230 I've never been patient to no flaming doctor, and hope I never shall be.

1936 Punch 10 June 646/1 Some flaming person has gone and stolen my flaming bicycle-pump, flame it all!

1944 Coast to Coast 1943 188 It was lovely work Patsy, but, stone the flamin' crows! you can't do that at your age.

1946 Coast to Coast 1945 163 Brand new line, and you're too flaming lazy to get the lot!

1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Oct. 174/1 Miss Fulton says..‘Not bad, but Chandler has done better...’ Too flaming right he has.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 61 To hell with the flaming place.

1969 Private Eye 9 May 14 He's saved my life if he only flamin' knew it.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 198 Ffesauntez enflureschit in flammande silver.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1468 Alle þe fruyt in þo formes of flaumbeande gemmes.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3986 Hir ene flamyng fresshe, as any fyne stones.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 116 Our English Glow-wormes, as well as the American, or flaming-flyes, have a luminous juice in their tailes.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §187 The glory of the Lord, which was wont to appear in a flaming light.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. vii. 97 The large yellow eye grew more flaming and fiery.

c1450 Crt. of Love 793 Her mouth is short..Flaming somedele, not over red.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 297 The Bannana's..from a dark-greene, mellow into a flaming yellow.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 414 At Noon in flaming Yellow bright.

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. II. i. 3 The flaming poppies among the ripening corn.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xii. 445 Voltaire has used his flamingest colours on this occasion.

1781 Compl. Mod. London Spy 95 A serjeant of the guards entered..with a flaming wench.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 100 Hee Hauing colour enough, and the other higher, is too flaming a praise for a good complexion. View more context for this quotation

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 201 I had heard some flaming Stories of Captain Avery, and the fine things he had done in the Indies.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 32 The good lady..did give him a most flaming character. View more context for this quotation

1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. iii. 355 The flaming pictures..given by the natives of the riches of the land.

1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvii. 287 There comes out a flaming attack against some poor man.

1923 ‘W. Fabian’ (title) Flaming youth.

1937 Time 6 Sept. 40/2 The traditional belief that flaming youth is guilty of most drunken driving accidents was last week scouted by the results of a six-month survey.

1960 J. Mitford Hons & Rebels viii. 58 The Bright Young People had faded from the London scene..as their transatlantic counterparts, the Flaming Youth, had no doubt disappeared from the American scene with the passing of the 'twenties.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 27 The hectic era of Prohibition, bootleggers, flappers, and flaming youth.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 31 The age of flaming youth.