What is "firemen"

Usage examples of "firemen".

I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

Were all firemen picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?

And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes.

But I kept putting her alongside the firemen in the house last night, and I suddenly realized I didn't like them at all, and I didn't like myself at all any more.

And I thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt.

And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then.

You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line.

The other firemen waited behind him, in the darkness, their faces illuminated faintly by the smouldering foundation.

So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burned!

He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, “Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?

So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant.

He’d done what he could, and then he stopped functioning: he simply stood in the driveway and watched the firemen work.

Some of the firemen looked like small mobile icebergs, the powerful lights glistening off them as they worked across the yard.

The firemen threw the tarps over them as soon as they got here, but it looks to me like there’s maybe a half-inch of snow on him.

Carr walked around the nose of LaCourt’s old Chevy station wagon, away from the gathering of deputies and firemen, turned, took a sip of coffee.