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    Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.†  (source)
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    They were to be sedate in bearing, unapproachable, regal even, but possessed of arcane and potentially lethal recipes, and capable of inspiring the most incendiary passions in men.†  (source)
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    If someone tried to enter with any sort of incendiary device it would be detected instantly.†  (source)
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    On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars.†  (source)
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    "I will never stand by and see my native soil polluted by a horde of Abolition incendiaries" or for that matter by the "lowest and most contemptible race upon the face of God's earth,"†  (source)
    incendiaries = things that easily create fire or anger
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    But he told Mr. Tulliver several stories about "Swing" and incendiarism, and asked his advice about feeding pigs in so thoroughly secular and judicious a manner, with so much polished glibness of tongue, that the miller thought, here was the very thing he wanted for Tom.†  (source)
    incendiarism = starting a destructive fire on purpose; or stirring up disagreement
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    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.†  (source)
    incendiarisms = instances of starting destructive fires on purpose, or stirring up disagreements
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    Austin picked some incendiary fluff off his shoulder.†  (source)
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    San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a paradise of outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it was now a great commercial emporium.†  (source)
    incendiaries = things that easily create fire or anger
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    —Essay on psychology in POLITICS (New York) (4) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.†  (source)
    incendiarism = starting a destructive fire on purpose; or stirring up disagreement
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    They were headed for Little Rock to add to the incendiary feelings in our town.†  (source)
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    A deputation of leading commercial people waited on the Government and told them that if they did not at once arrest the Committee of Public Safety, they themselves would gather a body of men, arm them, and fall on 'the incendiaries,' as they called them.†  (source)
    incendiaries = things that easily create fire or anger
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    That evening he learned that all these prisoners (he, probably, among them) were to be tried for incendiarism.†  (source)
    incendiarism = starting a destructive fire on purpose; or stirring up disagreement
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