What is "torchings"

Usage examples of "torchings".

We had to let the bastard go, and he was the only suspect we had on the torchings and the Descanso Hotel fire.

But on the hotel fire and the other torchings, we're back to square one.

Men spoke in hushed voices, murmuring about the Rive Watch, forced searches, torchings, and how Marafice Eye had blinded a carcass gutter for claiming, wrongly, that he had seen Asarhia March enter the Bone Temple and ask the tall and silent priests for asylum.

But this time, perhaps, they'll be able to begin the preparations for the next eclipse a hundred years or so in advance, and head off the worst of the upheaval, the mass insanity, the torchings, the universal devastation.