All 10 Uses of
incendiary
in
War and Peace
- The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.†
Chpt 2
- Though Tushin's guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was firing incendiary balls at the village of Schon Grabern visible just opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing.†
Chpt 2 *
- Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.†
Chpt 9
- Even if there was any arson (which is very doubtful, for no one had any reason to burn the houses—in any case a troublesome and dangerous thing to do), arson cannot be regarded as the cause, for the same thing would have happened without any incendiarism.†
Chpt 11
- "Ah, he looks very much like an incendiary," remarked the officer.†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- That evening he learned that all these prisoners (he, probably, among them) were to be tried for incendiarism.†
Chpt 12
- No, I went to look at the fire, and they arrested me there, and tried me as an incendiary.†
Chpt 12
- With regard to legal matters, immediately after the fires he gave orders to find and execute the incendiaries.†
Chpt 13
- With regard to legal matters, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries the rest of Moscow burned down.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(incendiary) of materials: designed to start fires
of ideas or words: arousing anger, violence, or rebellion