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afire
1. To her surprise they set it afire wanting nothing of their former Lord
2. “Chimney’s afire!” Jon helped to kill his first whale
3. oil-soaked ship afire! This was a task for Jon and his greenhand friends during his first whaling voyage
4. Edgar’s legs and feet were afire, but returning to life, nevertheless
5. When I entered the city, it was afire with activity all centered on the shipbuilding
6. But I guessed -- correctly, it proved -- that the invaders would search every building in the convent for valuables, and then set them all afire
7. They overturned cars, set stores afire, mugged and beat any who crossed their path
8. She was afire with eagerness for her latest venture; so the Tigress swung into the river mouth, the oarsmen pulling strongly as she breasted the broad current
9. But cutting down men blinded by the devil's-flame loosed by Salome was different from fighting a wiry young Hyborian afire with hate and rage
10. He was afire with the urge to kill—to drive his knife deep into flesh and bone, and twist the blade in blood and entrails
11. 'Was it a mortal's sword that felled you in your tent before the fight? Nay, it was a child of the dark, a waif of outer space, whose fingers were afire with the frozen coldness of the black gulfs, which froze the blood in your veins and the marrow of your thews
12. us/david-rothenberg-burn-victim-006211 Three Years After His Father Set Him Afire, David Rothenberg Not Only Survives but Smiles
13. Jamie Wilkinson hung his head and kept quiet, his face afire with embarrassment
14. Nero fiddled his fiddle, with Rome afire,
15. They sought refuge in the only building that was left standing and you set it afire
16. There is so little outside it--for the concerts, plays, debates, social gatherings, are dust and ashes near which I do not go--that it eagerly turns to what is inside it, and finds itself full of magic forces of heat and light, forces hot and burning enough to set every common bush afire with God
17. His nearness set her body afire, and she could not wait to be alone with him
18. Soon after that many homes, businesses and farms in our community will be set afire in the dark of night
19. My heart raced and my skin was afire
20. Her fears, her doubts, her insecurities, her pains, sorrows and frustrations—she implicates all of these things, and more, into the flames that cast the world afire, and it is no surprise when in but a moment the nameless thing that was so tall and imposing with yellow eyes and a serpentine face collapses into nothing
21. Others are covered with flammables and set afire (Nero was
22. My back was afire, searing my flesh from my bones
23. contents are set afire, rejected, and hurled back into the earth
24. double doubled horns afire, long hidden within the golden altar’s simple ark
25. ” The old man's voice was afire with the fuel of rhetoric and its power came
26. The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow! Now, a judicious selection from these with the least possible delay, and the burying of them, or otherwise getting of them out of harm's way, is within the power (without loss of precious time) of scarcely any one but myself, if any one
27. Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bundle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze
28. We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already
29. And if she turned over and found one in bed she would scramble out and lift a howl that you would think the house was afire
30. The depth of the conviction was demonstrated at Australia’s Cowra camp in 1944, when hundreds of Japanese POWs flung themselves at camp machine guns and set their living quarters afire in a mass suicide attempt that became known as “the night of a thousand suicides
31. They had to be afire with curiosity over the sudden, peremptory summons
32. Forty-five years earlier, when she’d been only six, her drunken father had in a fit of rage dropped her headfirst into a barrel of trash that he had set afire with a little kerosene
33. imagination and, of course, you can’t appreciate the tortures of people who have one— “Cowardly? Hell’s afire! There isn’t a cowardly bone in her body! But you haven’t any especially a child
34. He made frank remarks about women running around like the house was afire, just because they were having company, but wild horses could not have dragged him from the scene
35. The town was afire and she must hurry, hurry
36. One man-at-arms was dangling the puppets of Florian and Jonquil from his hands as another set them afire with a torch
37. “Wat’s Wood is afire,” he said in a hushed voice
38. Another swoop and another, and another house and then another sprang afire and fell; and still no arrow hindered Smaug or hurt him more than a fly from the marshes
39. sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars
40. This, with a great thunder, was set afire
41. The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmitted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about
42. "Well, suppose I did? What then? I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind? Besides, supposing we ARE loaded with powder barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get afire in this drenching spray here? Why, my little man, you have pretty red hair, but you couldn't get afire now
