There is a proper season for making attacks with fire, and special days for starting a conflagration. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
This movement of fire, the aliveness of the flames, the symphony of the conflagration, is everything it means to be a human being. From Wordnik.com. [Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done] Reference
As to Rome, the conflagration was a blessing in disguise. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The first thing to develop from the conflagration are the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Stoicism] Reference
A conflagration is the universal contagion, the one excitement that never palls. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Trail Divides] Reference
His playing music whilst watching the conflagration is a piece of popular folk belief. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddling while Rome burned] Reference
One serious effect of the conflagration was the general disorganization of the telegraph system. From Wordnik.com. [The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire] Reference
The man who finally kindled the conflagration was a half-mad fanatic, a stranger to the hierarchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipation of Massachusetts] Reference
That was what might have been called a conflagration dinner you gave the other night, Molly, in more ways than one. From Wordnik.com. [The Melting of Molly] Reference
Almost the only building of note to be spared the conflagration was the old garrison, a large and solid 18th-century edifice. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The middle scenario "conflagration" is the most likely. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq Violence To Persist Or Worsen] Reference
This thing's going to explode into some kind of conflagration when they all get back at their desks, I think. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009] Reference
If from this meagre kindling he can start any kind of conflagration he deserves recognition as a master manipulator. From Wordnik.com. [Today's blogging has a theme... I see.] Reference
"If this terrible conflagration, which is already devastating. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition] Reference
No book written in the year 1918 would be complete without a word about this awful conflagration which is now sweeping over the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-five years in the Black Belt,] Reference
The man is a volcano which would set an empire on fire; and we are to trust to him to put out the conflagration which is devouring us. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Marie Antoinette]
"There is here, and equally in Berlin, a party which accepts the idea of a conflict of widespread dimensions; in other words, a conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers] Reference
95 This conflagration is hinted by Lucian (in Hippia, c. 2) and Galen, (l.iii. de Temperamentis, tom.i. p. 81, edit. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
To Caddell, that would be the final conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [A Blood Sport] Reference
The precise origins of the current conflagration are murky. From Wordnik.com. [Warriors Of Red And White] Reference
Baseball doesn't have the luxury of another such conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Will Baseball Make It Through 2002?] Reference
The banana war may be just the start of a greater conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [Lining Up At The Exit] Reference
The conflagration surprised the authorities and singed them badly. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege Of L.A.] Reference
Harris's store was destroyed in the conflagration and she never returned. From Wordnik.com. [Back On The Block] Reference
Bill Feehan emerged from his office and looked out at the far-off conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
No less than other Americans, Christians were caught up in the cultural conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [Christians Examine Morality Of Birth Control] Reference
Baseball's longest losing streak-three decades of labor conflagration -- has finally ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Avoidance Of Wrath] Reference
Minimizing the risk of a conflagration so near the Chinese capital is obviously an essential policy goal. From Wordnik.com. [China Needs New Priorities] Reference
Last week upstart Netscape Communications declared an end to high-tech's hottest conflagration, the browser war. From Wordnik.com. [Browser War? What Browser War?] Reference
And if France isn't to move from one angry conflagration to the other, Jospin will have to do more than just listen. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of The Joyride] Reference
But it also reflected a deeper concern: in the tinderbox of the Middle East, such a raid could lead to conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [A Slow Slide Toward War?] Reference
With tensions rising between the U.S. and Iran, could this battle in Kurdistan's hills set off a larger conflagration?. From Wordnik.com. ['We Can’t Go Back Until the Shells Stop'] Reference
They are neither the get-out-now crowd of MoveOn Democrats, nor the conflagration crowd of confrontationalists on the right. From Wordnik.com. [The Pragmatists Are Back in Town] Reference
It's as if more firefighters had arrived at a burning home and turned their hoses on the flames, but the conflagration raged anyway. From Wordnik.com. [The Engine of Mayhem] Reference
This is classic Gates: no noisy confrontations with the likes of Cheney, just low-key, pragmatic steps to avoid sparking a conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Keeper] Reference
Southern California was dry, and the Santa Anas, the winds that blow off the desert, can whip up a careless campfire into a conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Scorched-Earth Obsession] Reference
The bishops gathered wood for this current conflagration every time they turned away from the human condition to emphasize wayward genitalia. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Leather, Impure Thoughts] Reference
According to one grisly theory, he specifically targeted the day-care center in retaliation for the children who died in the Waco conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Plot] Reference
Police suspect the cult, organized as "a government in waiting," aimed to touch off a final conflagration with authorities, then take over Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo Grabs The Doomsday Guru] Reference
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