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Meanings of burn like tinder in English

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Usage of burn like tinder in English
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It is now dry and would burn like tinder.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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This forest will burn like tinder.
The Young Forester
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She remembered that Wyvis had once said that the Red House would burn like tinder if it was ever set alight.
A True Friend: A Novel
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The flames sprung up and clung to the rotten woodwork, which burned like tinder.
The Story of a Bad Boy
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And once caught, it burned like tinder.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
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Daddy John built up the desert fire as a beacon- apileof sage that burned like tinder.
The Emigrant Trail
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It burned like tinder, and by the time she reached the spot, nothing could be seen but flames.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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All smaller growth, and even the surface of the ground, parched by summer heats, had burned like tinder.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
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Skene is burning like tinder.'
The Magician
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So we were obliged to use fir, which, when it is dried by a few days' sun, burns like tinder.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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'It would burn like tinder,' he said.
The Magician
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Old, dry and crammed with cotton, or other inflammable material, these burned like tinder; and at many points, whole blocks were on fire.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals / An Inside View of Life in the Sou...
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