flamma vorax imo penitus de gurgite tractos absorbet latices, saevoque urgente vapore siccus inarescit ripis cruor.
The devouring flame sucked the moisture from the very bottom of the stream and licked it up; and the blood upon the banks was dried up and caked by the fierce heat.
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