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Meanings of dry kindling in English

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Usage of dry kindling in English
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Under these fragile conditions, the noise was as a spark to dry kindling.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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An instantaneous affair blazes between these two like a flame that finds dry kindling.
Reuters
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A hulking figure from without burst through the door as if it were dry kindling.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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She added the dry kindling piece by piece, then larger pieces of the old shelf.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
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Fire smashed into the oak behind me, igniting the spray of branches faster than dry kindling.
Beautiful creatures
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The next blow brought a sickening, splintering crack, the sound of dry kindling under a hatchet.
The Shining
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Then, gathering the dry kindling from its place by the cave mouth, she carried it to the fire ring.
Scarlet
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A blue fire spread across the northwest edge of the city, burning solid rock as if it were dry kindling.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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After getting his candle lighted, the boy takes dry kindling, which has been gathered the night before, and starts a fire.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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She had learned to make the fire in the kitchen, and nothing was more acceptable than such a load of dry kindling wood.
The House That Jill Built, after Jack's Had Proved a Failure
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Leesil took out an oilcloth sack of dry kindling and sparked a small fire that sputtered and smoked from the damp wood he fed it.
Sister of the dead
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There was but one unpardonable breach of etiquette-tofail to leave dry kindlings.
The Spoilers
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"I'll have to make a light, no two ways on thet," he mused, and moved close up under the rocks to get some dry kindlings.
On the Trail of Pontiac; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio
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