Fire Tory with standard quota

Usage examples of conflagration.

Awad carefully pointed out the traces of firethe conflagration of the Amorite invasion, which had marked the very stones and survived the millennia.

Gwynwood was a virgin wood, free of firestarters and other trees that would have sprung up from the ashes of so great a conflagration.

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.

In the Word, moreover, lusts are compared to fire, and the evils from them to a conflagration.

Sprinklers continued to leak tepidly into the conflagration, adding steam to the toxic pall.

Their appetites were princely and swept over the little inn like a conflagration.

The Boers, like their own veld grass, need but a few sparks to be left behind to ensure a conflagration breaking out again.

He sang of an ancient conflagration, how flames burst through the roofs of the caverns under the sea because they had stoked the fires too high in the workshops of Poseidon, burst up and made a mountain with a burning mouth and the discharge from this mouth destroyed the island of Thera and made the sea boil, killing all the creatures of the deep, rearing up in a scalding wave as high as the palace of Pylos that ran against Crete and destroyed all the ships in the harbours of Cnossus and Cydonia, and the ashes of the fire covered all the land and nothing would grow and the people starved.

Broad-winged raptors and agile dragonets swooped and darted in waves before the flames, feasting on the insects and small game that were being driven from their hiding places by the onrushing conflagration.

So far, indeed, from appearing to entertain any hostile intention, not a cabin had been injured, if approached, and the smoke of the conflagration which had been expected to rise from the mills and the habitations in the glen, did not make its appearance.

Then may it be rather the well-worn joke Thou repeatest, to stop conflagration, and write Penance for rhetoric.

Even its vegetation was overwhelmingly spared, and yet the scale of conflagration elsewhere suggests that devastation was global.

With all their telescopes, the astronomers living in the golden light of Arcturus or the diamond blaze of Canopus would be unable to detect the least glimmer of the conflagration that had destroyed the seat of Adam and his descendents, just as now they are totally ignorant of its existence.

One evening a fire flamed up in Hoboken, and burned for hours against the west, in the lurid crimson tones of a conflagration as memorably and appealingly native as the colors of the sunset.

At 5:35 he again picked up the phone, but this time he poked out a direct-dial to a public telephone which was located several Pittsfield city blocks from the home of Leopold Turrin, a caporegime in Bolan's home town, scene of the original conflagration point of this impossible damned war.