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Meanings of incendiary fires in English

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Usage of incendiary fires in English
1
This novel police work has greatly reduced the number of incendiary fires.
The School Book of Forestry
2
But the incendiary fires were quenched and with them the fire of insurrection.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
3
We were told of midnight meetings, insolent conduct, and incendiary fires.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
4
There were incendiary fires on various estates and farms belonging to the landed gentry.
The Created Legend
5
Ships will go down with cargoes of wheat; incendiary fires will swallow warehouses of food.
The Cow Puncher
6
Rarely does detection happen; to this day half these incendiary fires are never followed by punishment.
The Life of the Fields
7
He was suspected of having started a number of incendiary fires at the instigation of others.
Jerusalem
8
He remembered what the forester had said about the desirability of an immediate investigation of incendiary fires.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
9
There were incendiary fires within the lines.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
10
The Forum originated in the volcanic fires of earth; it passed away in the incendiary fires of man.
Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
11
By attempts at incendiary fires and in other ways the Native Infantry regiment had shown a mutinous spirit.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
12
There is another class of incendiary fires which arise from a species of monomania in boys and girls.
Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literat...
13
Mobs and incendiary fires were reported in many districts, and the abolition of the House of Lords found strenuous advocates.
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
14
In some stations there were incendiary fires; in others the sepoys were wanting in their usual respect to their European officers.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
15
The officers of the National Forests in the West have become very expert in running down the people who set incendiary fires.
The School Book of Forestry
16
Many of the fairest portions of the town had been laid waste by the destructive ravages of incendiary fires, and had never been rebuilt.
The World As I Have Found It / Sequel to Incidents in the Life o...
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Incendiary fires across language varieties
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