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  • And after we were done, we incinerated their camp.†   (source)
  • The installations had had to be incinerated before the epidemic could be brought under control.†   (source)
  • Her body felt so hot she was surprised she didn't incinerate the fragile dress.†   (source)
  • The only area that escaped incineration was the Victor's Village.†   (source)
  • Being here, seeing this, it's nothing like what I was taught in my history classes: smiling pilots giving the thumbs-up, people cheering at the borders because we were at last safe, houses incinerated neatly, with no mess, as though they were just blipped off a computer screen.†   (source)
  • Soon the volcano was spitting out orange and red sparks, and then a glutinous tongue of black and orange lava oozed over the crater's rim and started a leisurely slide down the slope, incinerating everything in its path.†   (source)
  • Although he had never built a kiln before, he believed his design would generate temperatures extreme enough to incinerate anything within.†   (source)
  • In the daytime their crisp, incinerated corpses littered the floor and windowsills, and until Kochu Maria swept them away in her plastic dustpan, the air smelled of Something Burning.†   (source)
  • Maybe I can make it to the incineration tube and stuff the poems down into the fire below.†   (source)
  • He fought in vain to stop them from tossing garbage into the mangrove thickets that over the centuries had become swamps of putrefaction, and to have them collect it instead at least twice a week and incinerate it in some uninhabited area.†   (source)
  • That night a rumor spread that over two hundred migrants had been incinerated when the cinema burned down, children and women and men, but especially children, so many children, and whether or not this was true, or any of the other rumors, of a bloodbath in Hyde Park, or in Earl's Court, or near the Shepherd's Bush roundabout, migrants dying in their scores, whatever it was that had happened, something seemed to have happened, for there was a pause, and the soldiers and police…†   (source)
  • A flame jetted upward as the fire incinerated one of the moths circling the camp.†   (source)
  • He stepped into the kitchen, sniffed twice-it still smelled of the ashes of pizza crust and incinerated milk-and began to randomly open and close drawers until he found a corkscrew.†   (source)
  • He was inclined to sterilize its contents in an oven and then incinerate it.†   (source)
  • And what about incinerating Hiroshima and Nagasaki?†   (source)
  • They're included in Lenny's own incineration.†   (source)
  • They not only incinerated dozens of Japanese—the smell of burnt flesh floated on the damp wind—their liquid fire turned several pillboxes into infernos, causing Japanese ammunition to explode in great bursts.†   (source)
  • Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities?†   (source)
  • The conflict lasted all of three minutes, and that was only because the dragons kept having to move out of one another's way as they proceeded to incinerate, chew up, or step on the soldiers of the Troll army.†   (source)
  • It was useless for Nfvea to attempt to convince her that the wealth of mines lay in rocks, because to Rosa it was inconceivable that Esteban Trueba would spend years piling up boulders in the hope that by subjecting them to God only knew what wicked incinerating processes, they would eventually spit out a gram of gold.†   (source)
  • I ask, before I lose the nerve to ask it and do something dumb like walk away before my heart gets truly incinerated.†   (source)
  • The grass behind him was turning to black ash along the leading edge of the shadow, as if a long line of fire had been set ablaze beneath the earth and was incinerating the green life above it.†   (source)
  • It was while my father read to me an account of what had happened at Teresienstadt, where the Germans had imprisoned and incinerated European Jews of culture and learning, that I saw him break down and weep like a child.†   (source)
  • He hadn't either until he was almost twenty-six years old, and then the shorelines had been littered with metal obstacles, incinerated tanks and the floating bodies of dead marines.†   (source)
  • Then came that sunny September morning when airplanes crashed into towers a very few miles from my home and thousands of my neighbors were ruthlessly incinerated--reduced to ash.†   (source)
  • He unzipped his jumpsuit and dropped it into the hamper; there was a brief flash of light as it was incinerated.†   (source)
  • Incinerate this!†   (source)
  • His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm.†   (source)
  • Our own clothes have been taken away for incineration.†   (source)
  • She screamed and ran for the door, only to freeze when she realized that it was daylight outside, and that exiting the bank would quickly incinerate her.†   (source)
  • The dragon's incinerating breath grows more appealing by the second.†   (source)
  • Brick facades and chimneys still stood, but wooden frames and roofs had been incinerated.†   (source)
  • There is no delicate way to tell a person that he is holding a container full of the incinerated remains of his own body.†   (source)
  • He was certain his own sanity would be destroyed if he did not stop them and all the suffering and dying they caused—the people incinerated and exploded, and little children asleep on streets outside Gallup bars.†   (source)
  • Gazing at the glow to the south, Randy was witnessing, from a distance of almost two hundred miles, the incineration of a million people.†   (source)
  • The staff—the thing that turned into a snake—it got incinerated.†   (source)
  • I gave her a look that under different circumstances would've incinerated her.†   (source)
  • It melts my bones; it incinerates my skin; I am the sun gone supernova.†   (source)
  • First, they took my jumpsuit and shoes and incinerated them.†   (source)
  • Do you want me to take it home and incinerate it?†   (source)
  • All personal articles left behind will be incinerated in the lava pit.†   (source)
  • Then an incinerating white light filled the world, accompanied by an earsplitting wall of sound.†   (source)
  • Better than staying topside and getting incinerated by an alien death ray.†   (source)
  • I have the impulse to incinerate it right away.†   (source)
  • The site personnel drag the incineration tube to a newly readied pile.†   (source)
  • I push the napkin down the incineration tube.†   (source)
  • The workers shove them toward the incineration tube; they step on them.†   (source)
  • The incineration tube won't register the difference.†   (source)
  • The workers, most dressed in blue plainclothes, suck up piles of papers with the incineration tubes.†   (source)
  • The tubes are like the incineration devices at home.†   (source)
  • I probably should've shut up, but I couldn't believe Zia would actually incinerate me.†   (source)
  • You can't go around incinerating every hero.†   (source)
  • I will incinerate this bridge and everyone on it.†   (source)
  • One false move, and Leo could incinerate the piece of tinder that controlled Frank's life.†   (source)
  • Hall's yellow clothing, though he had worn it just an hour, was incinerated.†   (source)
  • The jogging trail erupted in Greek fire, incinerating many of the monsters instantly.†   (source)
  • Shall I incinerate the earth's atmosphere?†   (source)
  • They chafed against my will, remembering how much they wanted to incinerate me.†   (source)
  • If the hosts are animals, you kill them and incinerate the carcasses.†   (source)
  • Max promptly incinerated this reminder and turned to a letter from Sarah Amankwe.†   (source)
  • It is not something that incinerates you to a cinder in the thousandth part of a second.†   (source)
  • Immediately a turret popped up from the brick wall and a beam of pure heat incinerated the bronze plating to ashes.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, they hadn't been used in a long time, and the fireball from the crash incinerated most of the contents; but still, there were some pretty gross chemicals leaking out of the wreckage.†   (source)
  • But, if he was careful now, that bottle would be incinerated and, along with it, the very worst part of him.†   (source)
  • Blaine and the guard are instantly incinerated as the six quarts of liquid explosive coursing through Blaine's body ignites.†   (source)
  • Some were incinerated entirely.†   (source)
  • Even worse: after the incineration of his clothing, she continued to miss not only the many things she had loved in him but also what had most annoyed her: the noises he made on arising.†   (source)
  • Bernice let him know how much she disapproved of his carnivorous ways by kidnapping his leather sandals and incinerating them on the lawn.†   (source)
  • As for most people, his initial sensory contact with Chicago had been the fantastic stink that lingered always in the vicinity of the Union Stock Yards, a Chinook of putrefaction and incinerated hair, "an elemental odor," wrote Upton Sinclair, "raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual and strong."†   (source)
  • I glanced over at Art3mis just in time to see her incinerate a dozen Sixers in the space of five seconds, using balls of blue plasma that she hurled out of her palms, while ignoring the steady stream of laser bolts and magic missiles ricocheting off her transparent body shield.†   (source)
  • I told myself to trust Dad, trust the People in Charge, trust the Others not to incinerate the school buses full of children, trust that trust itself hadn't gone the way of computers and microwavable popcorn and the Hollywood movie where the slimeballs from Planet Xercon are defeated in the final ten minutes.†   (source)
  • Dumbo, whose jokes are as tasteless as his ears are big, cracks that we're not incinerating the infested bodies but grinding them up to feed the troops.†   (source)
  • We incinerate them after every meal, and it's even the right kind of paper, not like the one Grandfather gave me.†   (source)
  • My mother always laments the waste, since decayed leaves can be good fertilizer, just as my father laments the waste of the paper that could be recycled when he has to incinerate a library.†   (source)
  • It's faster to incinerate individual pages instead of books, so they slice the books open, gutting them along the spines, preparing them for the tubes.†   (source)
  • My father and the other Restoration specialists have been through the boxes and they haven't found anything special, so they will incinerate all of it.†   (source)
  • I stand and watch until all the bones are shoved into the incineration tubes, until all the words have been turned into ash and nothing.†   (source)
  • It reminds me of fall, when the City brings around the incineration equipment to our neighborhoods and we shovel the fallen maple leaves into the tubes.†   (source)
  • Something more likely to be found at an old library than anywhere else, if they truly do record the composition of everything burned in the incineration tubes.†   (source)
  • Then, just as in her nightmares, the Mark of Athena burned across the walls, incinerating the spiders until the room was empty except for the smell of sickly sweet ashes.†   (source)
  • Connor's hand snatched it from David's fingers, and he glanced at it a moment before incinerating the paper in a flash of green flame.†   (source)
  • At first Max thought it was the water's steam rising into the chill morning, but it was smoke still trickling from the charred crumble of wagons that had been incinerated down to the shallow waterline.†   (source)
  • If he was going to die anyway, maybe he could set off a massive blaze—incinerate the basilisks, so at least his friends could get away.†   (source)
  • How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time.†   (source)
  • If my eyes could shoot out fatal rays like the ones in comic books I would incinerate her on the spot.†   (source)
  • It didn't touch the interior, but in a flash most of the smaller monsters around it were incinerated.†   (source)
  • "But I also don't know why anyone would want a pencil made out of an incinerated disease-ridden body either."†   (source)
  • His gray eyes burned with a mixture of anger, hope, and despair that was so great, it seemed as if his emotions might burst forth and incinerate everything in sight in a blaze of unimaginable intensity, melting the very rocks themselves.†   (source)
  • Do not puncture or incinerate.†   (source)
  • And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†   (source)
  • Then I guess you get incinerated.†   (source)
  • Arching her neck, Saphira roared her tribute and released a jet of flame over the heads of the dwarves, incinerating a swath of rose petals.†   (source)
  • Smoke curls from the mangled remains of the chopper, black and gray, like the smoke that rose over Camp Haven carrying the incinerated remains of the slaughtered.†   (source)
  • There was a reason for the money: if anything happened to Burton and Stone on the ground, the pilot was ordered to fly directly to the Wildfire installation and hover thirty feet above-ground until such time as the Wildfire group had determined the correct way to incinerate him, and his airplane, in midair.†   (source)
  • The giant kite spread its wings, deflecting a blast of green fire from Menshikov's staff that probably would've incinerated Sadie on the spot.†   (source)
  • His very presence would incinerate you.†   (source)
  • He was becoming a bomb, a mass of energy that might suddenly ignite and incinerate everything for miles.†   (source)
  • Every valley was filled with air like that of a kiln, and the clean quartz sand of the winter water-courses, which formed summer paths, had undergone a species of incineration since the drought had set in.†   (source)
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