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    kindling


    1. with dehydration, confused in the kindling hours,


    2. All I had to do was collect some kindling and wipe the sticky cobwebs from my face


    3. grandma used Babe Ruth as kindling for the fire place


    4. I learned those acrobatics by picking up twigs from the yard for our winter kindling,” he offered


    5. of kindling towards the stake


    6. the kindling herself once a week, rather than pay a


    7. Thus far, the Maker was with him all the while, his power burning the Dead Tree’s limbs as though they were kindling


    8. kindling, and the children were back playing in the street -


    9. The inside of the fortress was cool and musty, smelling vaguely of old books, leather and smoke from kindling fire pits; it felt every bit as archaic as it looked from the outside


    10. He built them into flames with kindling, then larger sticks

    11. Since the fire had long since died, she rebuilt a pile of kindling sticks


    12. And these thoughts would fill his mind as the two Legionnaires gathered a bit more wood for kindling and made their way back to the center of the camp


    13. I hastily touched the flame to my kindling and watched the fire eat away at the sodden cloth


    14. “Uhm,” Maldynado said, “I think you need to start with kindling before—”


    15. It was filled in with ashes and dirt, with a small, dark and wet-looking pile of kindling beside it


    16. A few pieces of kindling would be provided at night


    17. Norman Douglas' insults burned in her soul, kindling a scorching flame


    18. likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the


    19. ” What would the consequences have been, he wonders, had the Pilgrims consulted “Ye Olde Weather Channel” about the climate of New England before they set sail for America back in the year 1620? What if they had shivered on the dock in submissive acquiescence to the forces of nature and sold the Mayflower for kindling wood? The earth as your mother, Steyn snorts, “is eco-babble


    20. John started a fire with paper, small pieces of kindling and pine

    21. 36 Others likewise ascending after them whiles they were busied with them that were within burnt the towers and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates and having received in the rest of the army took the city 37 And killed Timotheus that was hid in a certain pit and Chereas his brother with Apollophanes


    22. Then, instead of replacing the cast, she simply tied my arm onto a piece of kindling wood as a splint


    23. All she needed to find now was some kindling and a flint and steel, Nordheim was still a backward nation in many ways


    24. Eberhard wore the face of a Basset Hound with aplomb, oozing helplessness and kindling the protective instinct in women who were drawn to him like moths to a candle


    25. hit the ship at that speed, the Egyptian Queen would break into kindling


    26. The kindling fairy detached from the book front and went to settle on my open hand, introducing herself as Cirila


    27. Severa had already arrived and on the table had placed a copper cauldron very potbelly, which was sitting on a metal frame that contained some slats of wood and kindling


    28. He builds a small pile of kindling and fur


    29. I could hear his ribs cracking like kindling


    30. It needs kindling, then some sticks, and

    31. By the way, there’s an old rule about getting a fire started: the thickness of your kindling, in order of burning, should be “matchstick - finger - wrist”


    32. cone on the grate and erecting kindling and wood in formation


    33. Excitement filled him and he opened his eyes, looking to the kindling


    34. He would have a good ember burning in his kindling, but it refused to catch


    35. Then I stood up and rummaged through Liskara’s bags for dry clothes, kindling and the tinderbox, singing aloud to keep my stiff fingers moving


    36. appreciate that,” she said and gathered up a pile of kindling


    37. “All men have lust,” said Caesar, poking Johnny with a piece of kindling


    38. ” Emory set aside the flask and used a log to clear a circle where he piled his logs and then broke twigs into kindling


    39. There lay the kindling wood


    40. The first danger is that they have an extremely low kindling temperature and it is not unusual that when they are carried in a man’s pants pocket that the friction of their slight rubbing together ignites the matches and shortly thereafter the clothes of the bearer, much to his surprise, harm and embarrassment

    41. The linen charred black in the absence of oxygen within the sealed tin, but the result was that when cooled and exposed to air it's kindling temperature had been significantly lowered


    42. "What do you think? I knew that the Frankenstein monster was afraid of fire so I rushed in here and got a piece of kindling that was burning only at one end from the fire place


    43. She was happy to note a large pile of kindling


    44. First he took off his cloak before setting about to strike a spark from the flint-stone, then setting it to the kindling I had already built up


    45. Miller unpacked the horses and set up camp, taking care of all of the countless details including the tack line, digging pits for the tents, setting up the tents, unpacking the cooking gear and gathering the kindling for the fire


    46. The two were unwilling to make any further answer, as they saw that his anger was kindling


    47. suggestion or kindling spark of jealousy; for, one idea only, tending that


    48. Ah, my friend!" said the abbe, turning towards Dantes, and surveying him with the kindling gaze of a prophet, "you are young, you will see all this come to pass


    49. At this moment the expiring embers threw up a fresh flame from the kindling of a piece of wood that lay near, and a bright light flashed over the room


    50. But now, after the kindling again of so many memories, the first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keenpang of lust
























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    Synonyms for "kindling"

    firing ignition inflammation kindling lighting punk spunk tinder touchwood brushwood

    "kindling" definitions

    material for starting a fire


    the act of setting something on fire