Meanings of fire-raising in English

With regard to the amount of fire-raising there are no trustworthy statistics.

Much more favourite and efficient methods were passive resistance, flight, and fire-raising or murder.

There must be close on a hundred of them; and they're fire-raising as they come.

On the other hand Mrs. Hampson and Priscilla believed that Emma managed the fire-raising herself.

The last and most desperate means of defense which the serfs possessed were fire-raising and murder.

The sitting MP, Lord Watson, had resigned following his conviction for wilful fire-raising while drunk at an Edinburgh hotel.

Then the fire-raising began.

The fire-raising, however, was an excessively barbaric method of getting him to leave the parish, and the view justified the indignation of the gillie.

Police said they were treating the incident as wilful fire-raising and were trying to trace the occupants of a white car seen in the area.

He served eight months of a 16-month prison sentence for fire-raising after he drunkenly set fire to a hotel curtain in 2004.

Fire-raising followed, and that would be a hard heart which could read the tale unmoved.

'Fire-raising,' answered the laconic Dominie.