Examples from literature

• A fire-eater was trying some new stunt and he set the place ablaze, so the boss yelled to me. 
• In exterior appearance he did not fill the portrait of the traditional fire-eater. 
• It is about the contact of flame with the tender mucous membrane surfaces of the mouth and throat that Joe, as a fire-eater, was most concerned. 
• The latter, talking about the time when he, too, had been a fire-eater, had mentioned an act where a performer leaped through blazing hoops, and Joe determined to use the idea, varying it to suit his purpose. 
• There was a little time after supper before the performers had to go on with their acts, and Helen prevailed on Joe to take her to the hospital whither the injured fire-eater had been removed.