Long-burning flare used on roadways and in rail transport.
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Examples for "railroad flare"
Examples for "railroad flare"
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Two railroad flares sputtered redly thirty feet apart at the end of the long corridor of darkness.
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Lighting your cigarette with your powers is about as stealthy as waving around a road flare.
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The pouch contained a medical kit, a roll of duct tape, a road flare, and a flashlight.
3
Arson was clearly the cause of the fires - each had been started with a road flare.
4
Gard pulled what looked like a road flare out of her duffel bag and tossed the bag aside.
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In the pockets of his field jacket were two ordinary road flares.
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The highway flare sputtered in her hand, hissing like an angry snake.
2
He saw Cassie silhouetted against the flames, the highway flare still sputtering in her hand.
3
The highway flare cast wildly jittering light into the cave behind them, and both the girls' faces looked ghostly in its harsh shadows.
4
When Rex opened his eyes, he saw Melissa kneeling nearby, lighting the highway flares from the remains of the fire.
A spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring.
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This is Six; she's making some fusee chain for Mr Fanshaw.
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He said nothing, but consulted his watch by the aid of a fusee.
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You glow like a fusee whenever you see a young lady.
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The stranger popped open the plastic case and took out a long red fusee.
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The chief had a fusee, which he carried slung, in addition to his rifle.
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Then the fusee sputtered out, and he tossed it into the snow behind them.
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I had some fusee chain made this morning, I can mend it while you wait.'
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For a long time did this shower of sparks descend, spraying continuously like a fusee.
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We found a burning fusee, sure enough, but took good care to throw it overboard.
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If unfortunately they come within reach of his fusee, he almost invariably brings them down.
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He lingered a moment; and lighted a fusee, just for the sake of hearing the old familiar words.
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He quickly manufactured a fusee, so that the mass would not blaze up until the yard was fixed.
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He did not follow them himself until he had picked up and tossed a fusee into the fire.
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In front of the sultan, the Zeg Zeg troops had one French fusee; the Kano forces had forty-one muskets.
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Many inventions were put forward by chemists before the perfecting of the common match, the wax vesta, and the fusee.
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You must leave in this ball an opening to serve as a fusee, and cover it with rosin and sulphur.