1621 J. Ashmore Epigrammes in tr. Horace 46 Mercurialists, the bowels of the earth That rent, and with fire-belching bellows breath Smelt metalls.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ xiv. 105 They thought I was one of those fire-belching dragons they had heard so much about from knights and other professional liars.
2001 Nov. 61/1 Lush green rain forests, fire-belching volcanoes..and the cobalt blue of the Pacific.