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  • The “crucible” of cross-examination is often more like a blast-furnace, sometimes more of an ashtray.

    A Google Search For “Mistrial” Yields Too Many Results : Law is Cool 2009

  • But blast-furnace style winds lifted temperatures above 103 degrees and tested even the most fit riders, almost all of them younger than Armstrong.

    Armstrong completes first stage at Tour Down Under 2009

  • That's blast-furnace level, and, it's a big, big reach.

    Defense on the Offense 2011

  • That's blast-furnace level, and, it's a big, big reach.

    Defense on the Offense 2011

  • He rode 90 miles in blast-furnace heat on Tuesday and another 92 miles in cooler conditions Wednesday, but found no cause on either day to question his decision to return.

    Armstrong enjoying time back in professional peloton 2009

  • She felt the vibration and blast-furnace whoosh of superheated air as it shot from her toward the snake, felt the burn all the way down her naked body.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • You have utterly and completely failed to counter the blast-furnace heat from the Republican media machine with any sort of defense of what it is you are doing, or any of the good things that Democrats have managed to get done.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [145] -- A Democratic Epitaph Chris Weigant 2010

  • You have utterly and completely failed to counter the blast-furnace heat from the Republican media machine with any sort of defense of what it is you are doing, or any of the good things that Democrats have managed to get done.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [145] -- A Democratic Epitaph Chris Weigant 2010

  • It was held in the yard of a modest house in a heavily immigrant neighborhood, as the sun was dipping behind the horizon and blast-furnace heat of a mid-summer day in the desert was giving way to something a little more bearable.

    Ray Suarez: SB1070 and Arizona 2010

  • She felt the vibration and blast-furnace whoosh of superheated air as it shot from her toward the snake, felt the burn all the way down her naked body.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

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