1697 J. Lead II. 345 Meeting still with cold damps that have often choaked the Life-flame.
1906 Apr. 436 Two of these life-flames were burning brightly..in the adjacent theatre.
2002 S. P. Thoele (new ed.) 166 As Leslie puts it, one day she awoke from her depression with the awareness that her life force, or life flame as she calls it, was not yet extinguished.