A criminal who illegally sets fire to property

Usage examples of incendiary.

Squadrons of combat Remoras crisscrossed the sky, dropping incendiary bombs primarily in unoccupied areas, though a few struck warehouses and governmental buildings.

If a raid came, he would call upon the men in his block to fight any incendiary bombs that fell.

It was constantly stressed that the best time to tackle a fire was the moment the incendiary bomb dropped, even if high-explosive bombs were also falling.

The sight of her was incendiary, clad in that narrow breastband and hipsnugs that displayed every lush curve of her long body.

When Orsini attempted to execute the sentence of death on the Emperor of the French, in obedience to the order of the Carbonari, of which the Emperor was a member, he was, if the theory of the origin of government in compact be true, no more an assassin than was the officer who executed on the gallows the rebel spies and incendiaries Beal and Kennedy.

The ruperts stationed two of the jundies in the room with me and then left, presumably in case I was lying and was about to explode a string of incendiary devices.

Bobrowski the incendiary and his crony Materna with whom it all began?

He is unable to believe that Bobrowski the great robber, or Materna, robber, incendiary, and ancestor, ever gave flesh to this skeleton.

I heard that incendiary fires were springing up all over Meerut and that mutiny had broken out there.

Federates had occupied the opera-house immediately after the eighteenth of March and had made a starting-place right at the top for their Mongolfier balloons, which carried their incendiary proclamations to the departments, and a state prison right at the bottom.

The Rebels had the search-and-destroy tactics down to perfection, using incendiary charges their lab people had devised that threw white phosphorus and napalm upon exploding.

The Rebels had pumped more than five thousand rounds commost of them incendiary rounds -- into the city.

Black puffs, up to eight feet in diameter, appeared behind and alongside the plane, and machine-gun fire from the ground followed it for a short time as Truelove released the third bomb, an incendiary cluster, on a two story building with a sawtooth roof.

Iris sat on the train enroute to Cranford Hall and stared at the passing scenery without seeing the craters made by German bombs, the houses reduced to rubble, trees scorched from incendiaries.

They lived in a land torn with war among mountains and Domains alike, Cassandra in a Tower beset by air-cars and incendiaries, Allart in a land aflame with forest fire and raging lightnings, striking like arrows.