I found a life jacket and beat at the flames.

They came to two other young men who were standing there looking at the approaching flames.

She couldn't even beat at the flames with her hands.

I saw a figure standing by the hearth looking down at the flames.

He was looking at the rising flames but clearly not watching them.

And he grinned with a new confidence at the flames.

He screamed, and tried to beat at the flames with his hands.

When Finn had gone to bed she sat by the fire and looked at the flames.

He took one look at the flames and tried to assess who was needed where.

We stared at the flames together for maybe ten seconds.