1738. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, Dialogue II. Lord Sparkish. My Lady Smart, your ladyship has a very fine scarf. Lady Smart. Yes, my lord, it will make a FLAMING figure in a country church.
1776. COLMAN, The Spleen, ii. Rubrick. … I’ll send a FLAMING paragraph of their wedding to all the news-papers.
1872. BESANT and RICE, Ready-Money Mortiboy, ch. xxx. He called one of the children, and sent her for a bill. She presently returned with a FLAMING poster.
