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  • Everywhere we looked as we approached the hogback ridge that marked the terminus of the forest, we could see seedpods and cones burst open with new life for the various fire species that had died in the conflagration of the previous two nights.†   (source)
  • Rather, this talk of conflagration was a way of easing the despair of watching the dream come to an end.†   (source)
  • And the only way to do that is with a true conflagration—flames stoked by blood.†   (source)
  • …leaps a hundred feet to the top of a buried tank, uses that as a launch pad for another long. arcing leap over the chain link fence that separates the fuel installation from the airport proper, and then it settles into a long, steady, powerful lope, accelerating across the perfect geometric plane of the runway, chased by a long tongue of flame that extends lazily from the middle of the conflagration, whorling inward upon itself as it traces the currents in the Rat Thing's aftershock.†   (source)
  • He gripped the mug with both hands, talked about the noise of the conflagration, the air-fed wallop of combustion, like a ramjet thrusting.†   (source)
  • And all we can hope for now is to prevent this from erupting into general conflagration, to salvage what we can of the key bloodlines.†   (source)
  • The use of some kind of accelerant, like gasoline or alcohol, seems to be indicated in the conflagrations; however, no traces of any accelerant have yet been found.†   (source)
  • Then they set fire to what was left. And Nelson and Pedrito, seeing the conflagration and fearing for Patria and the children, came running down from the hills,†   (source)
  • So that when Colonel Aureliano Buendia invited him to start a mortal conflagration that would wipe out all vestiges of a regime of corruption and scandal backed by the foreign invader, Colonel Gerineldo Marquez could not hold back a shudder of compassion.†   (source)
  • Nothing could stop that conflagration there.†   (source)
  • He is perhaps a few degrees away from being a walking conflagration.†   (source)
  • I am the expert on the Middle East and these stupid conflagrations cannot last much longer.†   (source)
  • Jace's head was thrown back, his body arched like a bow as the conflagration raged through him.†   (source)
  • It is ironic, of course, that I should have been the one who caused a near-conflagration, and put my beloved house in danger.†   (source)
  • Factious leaders may kindle a flame within their States, while not able to spread a conflagration through the other States.†   (source)
  • The heat hung close and sticky in the hallway; it was heat unreasonably intense even for the summer evening—adding bafflement to the chagrin with which I was already overwhelmed—and for an instant I thought there must be a conflagration lurking behind the pink walls until I suddenly spied Morris Fink crouched in one corner, laboring over a steaming radiator.†   (source)
  • Yama stood in the midst of a conflagration, but he did not move.†   (source)
  • A nightingale raged in frantic song Like a church bell pealing forth a tocsin; He sang among branches interlaced and darkling Against the sunset's conflagration.†   (source)
  • Joel sat up with his eyes wide open in the shadows and looked out like the lone watcher of a conflagration.†   (source)
  • To the south a monster conflagration was filling the sky, and we knew that the great ghetto was burning.   (source)
  • Everything was timing now, and "West Germany" would initiate the wholesale conflagrations.†   (source)
  • The new buildings are of stone or brick, which will, one hopes, make them less prone to conflagrations.†   (source)
  • The plane was stopping in front of the terminal, where the group of government officials was gathered, watching the ever-growing conflagrations taking place less than a quarter of a mile away to the north.†   (source)
  • Several tense minutes elapsed before the unnatural blazes were removed and it became clear that the conflagrations would not spread to the rest of the ship.†   (source)
  • I had watched the greatest of the world's conflagrations from its beginning …. and although the fire was still blazing all over the city with undiminished luster, I could not look at it.†   (source)
  • The conflagration roared around him, entirely shrouding his body in a column of light.†   (source)
  • Fisk's house joined the conflagration next.†   (source)
  • Your precious statue will be burned in a great conflagration.†   (source)
  • Clary, she thought, crawling toward Jace through the heart of the conflagration.†   (source)
  • The conflagration swirled around them but did not even scorch Saphira's scales.†   (source)
  • The noise of the conflagration was terrific.†   (source)
  • Far behind him he could hear what sounded like a great conflagration, entire cities and forests burning.†   (source)
  • In the Loop men and women gathered on rooftops and in the highest offices of the Rookery, the Masonic Temple, the Temperance Building, and every other high place to watch the distant conflagration.†   (source)
  • There were two nearly full gallons of stove gas in the bus; presumably, it would have been a simple matter to start a conflagration large enough to attract the attention of passing airplanes or at least burn a giant SOS into the muskeg.†   (source)
  • Everywhere we looked as we approached the hogback ridge that marked the terminus of the forest, we could see seedpods and cones burst open with new life for the various fire species that had died in the conflagration of the previous two nights.†   (source)
  • Its people had been carried off into slavery or slaughtered for meat, depending on which version of the tale you believed, their homes and halls consumed in a conflagration that burned so hot that watchers on the Wall far to the south had thought the sun was rising in the north.†   (source)
  • She flew nonstop until the sun had traversed the dome of the sky and extinguished itself behind the horizon and then burst forth again with a glorious conflagration of reds and yellows.†   (source)
  • When the Nine Worlds are destroyed in a great conflagration and the armies of gods and giants meet in battle for the last time.†   (source)
  • He looks at the flaring sky in the deep distance out beyond the headlands on the left-hand page—Death elsewhere, Conflagration in many places, Terror universal, the crows, the ravens in silent glide, the raven perched on the white nag's rump, black and white forever, and he thinks of a lonely tower standing on the Kazakh Test Site, the tower armed with the bomb, and he can almost hear the wind blowing across the Central Asian steppes, out where the enemy lives in long coats and fur…†   (source)
  • The Myrmen swapped jokes as they enjoyed the warmth of the fire, but young Lord Bar Emmon had turned a splotchy grey, and Lord Velaryon was watching the king rather than the conflagration.†   (source)
  • Two head boys had collided with the shabbily dressed Zhongguo ren whose carelessness and outsized matches had caused the conflagration.†   (source)
  • Roran's own men appeared to have escaped with only minor burns—most had been standing outside the radius of the fireball—although the unexpected conflagration had left them disoriented and unsteady.†   (source)
  • And would he devilishly ask why I had been so careless with the fireplace in my most precious home, as if I'd wanted to bring everything down in a self-made conflagration?†   (source)
  • They went on board a riverboat, the wooden wheel of which had a sound of conflagration, and whose rusted metal plates reverberated like the mouth of an oven.†   (source)
  • Bourne reached the compressed, miniaturized outlines of "Washington, D.C." when the conflagration began.†   (source)
  • There were the remnants of a fire in the family room hearth, and I could not remember if I had lit one the evening before (I had been doing so periodically, if carefully, since that sudden conflagration).†   (source)
  • The Conflagration Still in Progress.†   (source)
  • The great north wall of the Nevada Hotel plunged inward with hardly a sound, so great was the din of the surrounding conflagration.†   (source)
  • All these things — the great, dazzling, mounting light, the crash and roar of the conflagration, and the desperate flight of the crowd — combined to make a scene of which no intelligent idea can he conveyed in words.†   (source)
  • The sight of those coffins, upright, and bobbing along just above the heads of the crowd …. was somewhat startling and the unavoidable suggestion was that they were escaping across the river to be ready for use when the debris of the conflagration should be cleared away.†   (source)
  • Many people were just returning from the Sunday evening services at the various churches when the general alarm was given, but, beyond the immediate vicinity of the beginning of the conflagration, no unusual fear or solicitude was felt by the citizens.†   (source)
  • In their book, Chicago and the Great Conflagration, Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin reported that as early as Tuesday morning a sense of desperation prevailed when "water-carts moving through the streets [were] being surrounded, every time they halted, by men in dressing-gowns and women in their meanest wear, bearing buckets and pitchers, to buy, at a shilling a pailful, the fluid which had suddenly become so precious."†   (source)
  • …so that as he held it inches above her face where she lay against the pillow—wiggling it between thumb and forefinger and causing the pinkish oblong to do a little midair pirouette—she could see shimmering along its surface the miniature conflagration which was only a captured image of the autumnal leaves outside, set afire by the sunset… Drowsily Sophie inhaled the odor of cooking from the kitchen two floors below—a mingled fragrance of bread and, she thought, cabbage—and watched the…†   (source)
  • This will prevent all conflagrations for the future.†   (source)
  • It was growing dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous.†   (source)
  • As conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the whole human race.†   (source)
  • A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it —which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.†   (source)
  • So we stood round our engine, jostled one another, expressed our sentiments through speaking-trumpets, or in lower tone referred to the great conflagrations which the world has witnessed, including Bascom's shop, and, between ourselves, we thought that, were we there in season with our "tub," and a full frog-pond by, we could turn that threatened last and universal one into another flood.†   (source)
  • You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling.†   (source)
  • The first tall flame from Rainbarrow sprang into the sky, attracting all eyes that had been fixed on the distant conflagrations back to their own attempt in the same kind.†   (source)
  • So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations.†   (source)
  • A town built of wood, where scarcely a day passes without conflagrations when the house owners are in residence and a police force is present, cannot help burning when its inhabitants have left it and it is occupied by soldiers who smoke pipes, make campfires of the Senate chairs in the Senate Square, and cook themselves meals twice a day.†   (source)
  • The French patrol was one of those sent out through the various streets of Moscow by Durosnel's order to put a stop to the pillage, and especially to catch the incendiaries who, according to the general opinion which had that day originated among the higher French officers, were the cause of the conflagrations.†   (source)
  • …the monthly meetings have been apply'd to the purchase of fire-engines, ladders, fire-hooks, and other useful implements for each company, so that I question whether there is a city in the world better provided with the means of putting a stop to beginning conflagrations; and, in fact, since these institutions, the city has never lost by fire more than one or two houses at a time, and the flames have often been extinguished before the house in which they began has been half consumed.†   (source)
  • But in the middle of the plaster-of-Paris mask was an event which had nothing whatsoever to do with plaster of Paris: her eyes, and they were a twin disaster, they were a black explosion, they were a conflagration.†   (source)
  • I woke in a garden, with a blow on the nape of my neck, a hot kiss, Jinny's; remembering all this as one remembers confused cries and toppling pillars and shafts of red and black in some nocturnal conflagration.†   (source)
  • And this was the moment on which all depended; for from one coal could arise again the whole conflagration.†   (source)
  • Anyway, they had just set fire to tons of food and clothing and tobacco and liquors, taking nothing though there had not been issued any order against looting, and they turn now, with all that for background, backdrop: the consternation, the conflagration; the sky itself must have been on fire.†   (source)
  • Seeing fire breaking out in a nearby ruin (except at the very center where the bomb itself ignited some fires, most of Hiroshima's city-wide conflagration was caused by inflammable wreckage falling on cook-stoves and live wires.)†   (source)
  • 9 According to the Stoic doctrine of the cyclic conflagration, all souls are resolved into the world soul or primal fire.†   (source)
  • His shirt front, there in the corner, has been white; then purple; smoke and flame have wrapped us about; after a furious conflagration—yet we scarcely raised our voices, sitting on the hearth-rug, as we murmured all the secrets of our hearts as into shells so that nobody might hear in the sleeping-house, but I heard the cook stir once, and once we thought the ticking of the clock was a footfall—we have sunk to ashes, leaving no relics, no unburnt bones, no wisps of hair to be kept in…†   (source)
  • But soon the conflagration died down, and the ghosts began to gather in the darkness.†   (source)
  • The glare of a red spluttering conflagration going on in mid-air fell on his eyes.†   (source)
  • "Cold news," said Waldemar, "to us, though you speak of fire and conflagration."†   (source)
  • The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds.†   (source)
  • Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, oaths, and songs exploded.†   (source)
  • When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is more simple.†   (source)
  • A great number of people crowded in front of the conflagration.†   (source)
  • All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the direction of the conflagration.†   (source)
  • She felt the conflagration starting up once more.†   (source)
  • They made haste to stamp out these beginnings of conflagration.†   (source)
  • A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why not await the dawn?†   (source)
  • …but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.†   (source)
  • Dozing off twice with the glowing cigarette between his lips, he only by a hair missed starting a general conflagration.†   (source)
  • All the life of Miriam's body was in her eyes, which were usually dark as a dark church, but could flame with light like a conflagration.†   (source)
  • All the filth of the world, all the offal and scum of the world, we are told, shall run there as to a vast reeking sewer when the terrible conflagration of the last day has purged the world.†   (source)
  • Under the ceaseless conflagration of lightning that flamed in the skies, everything below stood out in clean-cut and shadowless distinctness: the bending trees, the billowy river, white with foam, the driving spray of spume-flakes, the dim outlines of the high bluffs on the other side, glimpsed through the drifting cloud-rack and the slanting veil of rain.†   (source)
  • The conflagration had been got under by the time they reached it, and after a short inspection of the melancholy ruins they retraced their steps—their course lying through the town of Alfredston.†   (source)
  • Every now and then a haze of smoke from some nearer conflagration drove across the window and hid the Martian shapes.†   (source)
  • There is a line of hills, dark against the distant conflagration whose glow sometimes gathers into fluttering flames.†   (source)
  • The conflagration made a clear zone of fire for the rifles of the small party, and expired smouldering on the edge of the forests and along the muddy bank of the creek.†   (source)
  • In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away.†   (source)
  • She made a great point of being so near the river, in case of a conflagration; and I suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance.†   (source)
  • Having looked at this extinct conflagration and shaken his head, he took my order; which, proving to be merely, "Some tea for the lady," sent him out of the room in a very low state of mind.†   (source)
  • While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promiscuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.†   (source)
  • The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen — by conflagration: but how kindled?†   (source)
  • It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration.†   (source)
  • The chief benefit to be expected from this conflagration of past literature undoubtedly is, that writers will henceforth be compelled to light their lamps at the sun or stars.†   (source)
  • On the ground the groups of villagers were still occupied in doing all they could to keep down the conflagration, which was not much.†   (source)
  • 'Yes that's all the good that such a brute as you can get from them!' cried Catherine, sucking her damaged lip, and watching the conflagration with indignant eyes.†   (source)
  • As the count was immensely rich, excepting the danger Carmela had run,—and the marvellous manner in which she had escaped, made that appear to him rather a favor of providence than a real misfortune,—the loss occasioned by the conflagration was to him but a trifle.†   (source)
  • Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.†   (source)
  • Let us learn how to make use of that vast conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth and quivers at certain hours.†   (source)
  • The heat of the conflagration had at length overcome the resistance of the spring, and the fire was slowly stealing along the half-dried moss; while a dead pine kindled with the touch of a forked flame, that, for a moment, wreathed around the stem of the tree, as it whined, in one of its evolutions, under the influence of the air.†   (source)
  • …and insects, which, so far as he had heard, had never before attracted human observation; and he noticed remarkable coincidences between these zoological phenomena and the great events of that time,—as, for example, that before the burning of York Minster there had been mysterious serpentine marks on the leaves of the rose-trees, together with an unusual prevalence of slugs, which he had been puzzled to know the meaning of, until it flashed upon him with this melancholy conflagration.†   (source)
  • The star of day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at once the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the towers and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration.†   (source)
  • , there would have been no documents in the trial of Ravaillac deposited in the clerk's office of the Palais de Justice, no accomplices interested in causing the said documents to disappear; hence, no incendiaries obliged, for lack of better means, to burn the clerk's office in order to burn the documents, and to burn the Palais de Justice in order to burn the clerk's office; consequently, in short, no conflagration in 1618.†   (source)
  • In order to effect the latter purpose, it became necessary to wait until the light of the intended conflagration should direct his aim, when he well knew that a very slight effort of his skill would suffice.†   (source)
  • Great characters are then thrown into relief, as edifices which are concealed by the gloom of night are illuminated by the glare of a conflagration.†   (source)
  • It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.†   (source)
  • She had caught sight of her new Sunday gown—a cheap curtain-calico thing, a conflagration of gaudy colors and fantastic figures.†   (source)
  • The fire was still raging in the distance, and as the air swept away the first vapour of the conflagration, fresh volumes rolled along the place, limiting the view.†   (source)
  • The flame was just kindling a second time, when an Indian female pushed through the circle, advanced to the heap, and with her foot dashed aside the lighted twigs in time to prevent the conflagration.†   (source)
  • I hardly heard Mrs. Fairfax's account of the curtain conflagration during dinner, so much was I occupied in puzzling my brains over the enigmatical character of Grace Poole, and still more in pondering the problem of her position at Thornfield and questioning why she had not been given into custody that morning, or, at the very least, dismissed from her master's service.†   (source)
  • Hetty looked surprised, but accustomed to comply, she ceased her awkward and painful interrogations of Warley, bending her eyes towards the Bible which she still held between her hands, as one would cling to a casket of precious stones in a shipwreck, or a conflagration.†   (source)
  • "Yes; there is the proof of what you say," answered I, turning to the observer; "but if only what is evil can feel the action of the fire, then, surely, the conflagration has been of inestimable utility.†   (source)
  • Thinking that my aunt might have relapsed into one of her old alarms, and might be watching the progress of some imaginary conflagration in the distance, I went to speak to her.†   (source)
  • With a speaker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel into the conflagration, looking at the midst of the pile, occasionally lifting his eyes to measure the height of the flame, or to follow the great sparks which rose with it and sailed away into darkness.†   (source)
  • Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do his bidding.†   (source)
  • The maniac figure of the Saxon Ulrica was for a long time visible on the lofty stand she had chosen, tossing her arms abroad with wild exultation, as if she reined empress of the conflagration which she had raised.†   (source)
  • The naturalist stood, tablets in hand, looking at the awful spectacle with as much composure as if the conflagration had been lighted in order to solve the difficulties of some scientific problem.†   (source)
  • There is one thing that these wiseacres have forgotten to throw into the fire, and without which all the rest of the conflagration is just nothing at all; yes, though they had burned the earth itself to a cinder.†   (source)
  • The anxiety on the rigid features of the trapper sensibly deepened, as he leisurely traced these evidences of a conflagration, which spread in a broad belt about their place of refuge, until he had encircled the whole horizon.†   (source)
  • The flames had scorched the earth to its very margin, and as the warm streams of the fluid mingled, in the cooler air of the morning, with the smoke of the raging conflagration, most of its surface was wrapped in a mantle of moving vapour.†   (source)
  • "Look ye, here," returned the trapper, pointing to the mutilated carcass of a horse, that lay more than half consumed in a little hollow of the ground; "here may you see the power of a prairie conflagration.†   (source)
  • The red glow, which gleamed upon their enormous folds, now lighting their volumes with the glare of the conflagration, and now flashing to another point, as the flame beneath glided ahead, leaving all behind enveloped in awful darkness, and proclaiming louder than words the character of the imminent and approaching danger.†   (source)
  • A red glow as of a conflagration spread above the horizon from the rising full moon, and that vast red ball swayed strangely in the gray haze.†   (source)
  • The conflagration, at which he had looked with so much indifference the evening before, had greatly increased during the night.†   (source)
  • In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the conflagration.†   (source)
  • The sounds of crackling and the din of falling walls and ceilings, the whistle and hiss of the flames, the excited shouts of the people, and the sight of the swaying smoke, now gathering into thick black clouds and now soaring up with glittering sparks, with here and there dense sheaves of flame (now red and now like golden fish scales creeping along the walls), and the heat and smoke and rapidity of motion, produced on Pierre the usual animating effects of a conflagration.†   (source)
  • There is sometimes a chamber which does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of shoals, a tranquil nook.†   (source)
  • Ever since 1830, petty partial revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying conflagration.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was extinguished.†   (source)
  • Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their throats…†   (source)
  • It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for conflagration.†   (source)
  • …word, there was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth.†   (source)
  • The French, fired on from every point,—from behind the walls, from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the stones,— fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the grape-shot was a conflagration.†   (source)
  • Here this madman, Hektor, like a conflagration leads them, bragging he is a child of almighty Zeus.†   (source)
  • As in dark forests, measureless along the crests of hills, a conflagration soars, and the bright bed of fire glows for miles, now fiery lights from this great host in bronze played on the earth and flashed high into heaven.†   (source)
  • Then from a golden cup he made libation copiously, praying the two to come, so that the dead might quickly be consumed by conflagration of the great logs.†   (source)
  • Around them battle spread like a fire that seethes and flares once it has broken out upon a city; houses fall in with flame-bursts, as the wind makes the great conflagration roar: so now incessant din of chariots and spearmen beset them on their way.†   (source)
  • European conflagration.†   (source)
  • The conflagration spread like wild-fire, their housing being all of wood, and covered with flags or rushes.†   (source)
  • The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States.†   (source)
  • 9. where he saith, "I will bring the third part through the Fire, and refine them as Silver is refined, and will try them as Gold is tryed;" Which is spoken of the comming of the Messiah in Power and Glory; that is, at the day of Judgment, and Conflagration of the present world; wherein the Elect shall not be consumed, but be refined; that is, depose their erroneous Doctrines, and Traditions, and have them as it were sindged off; and shall afterwards call upon the name of the true God.†   (source)
  • shall be the Conflagration of the world, wherein the wicked shall perish; but the remnant which God will save, shall passe through that Fire, unhurt, and be therein (as Silver and Gold are refined by the fire from their drosse) tryed, and refined from their Idolatry, and be made to call upon the name of the true God.†   (source)
  • The terrible light of this conflagration made me very uneasy, and roused my nephew the captain, and the rest of his men, who knew nothing of the matter.†   (source)
  • And as to those mortal feuds which, in certain conjunctures, spread a conflagration through a whole nation, or through a very large proportion of it, proceeding either from weighty causes of discontent given by the government or from the contagion of some violent popular paroxysm, they do not fall within any ordinary rules of calculation.†   (source)
  • Indeed, it was an egregious piece of folly in me to return to the boat with but one attendant; and I had very near paid for it, having narrowly escaped forty armed Indians, who had been alarmed by the conflagration; but having passed the place where they stood, I got to the boat accompanied with the supercargo, and so went on board, sending the pinnace back again, to assist the men in what might happen.†   (source)
  • …hitherto been suffered to sleep quietly in their beds; if their property has remained safe against the predatory spirit of licentious adventurers; if their maritime towns have not yet been compelled to ransom themselves from the terrors of a conflagration, by yielding to the exactions of daring and sudden invaders, these instances of good fortune are not to be ascribed to the capacity of the existing government for the protection of those from whom it claims allegiance, but to causes…†   (source)
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