| An old flame revisits the hill village and his one encounter with her tells him that it is a hope betrayed. |
| Last year I went to my high-school reunion and ran into an old flame. |
| When Darwin's book The Origin of Species was published in 1859, his brother Erasmus sent a copy to his old flame Harriet Martineau. |
| Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall. |
| A letter from an old flame fluttered to the welcome mat this week, tinged with the rosy glow of nostalgia and giving off a faint melancholy whiff of might-have-beens. |
| The film, which features local acting talent, was shot in Temple Hill in 2003, and is about a poor single mum who bumps into an old flame. |
