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Betty could not help feeling like “the returning Confederate soldier looking over the burned-off ground that had once been his home.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Betty could not help feeling like “the returning Confederate soldier looking over the burned-off ground that had once been his home.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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But in a curious way, those mistakes made by a mason more than 80 years ago humanised the municipal war memorial, brought the fighting closer, reminded us of those burned-off lives.
How a clumsy Italian stonemason brought home the sorrows of war 2010
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It consists of two stanzas, the first appearing to celebrate a victorious battle in which the enemy has been routed; the second focusing on "the lives, burned-off/Of young men and boys".
How a clumsy Italian stonemason brought home the sorrows of war 2010
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The concentrated ore is melted in a smelting furnace where impurities are either burned-off as gas or separated as molten slag.
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Any bad or good burned-off pilots that you remember seeing?
"Failure Theatre" Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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Any bad or good burned-off pilots that you remember seeing?
Archive 2007-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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During warm weather the trails were probably horrific even for iron-butt backpackers or anglers — muddy, rough with burned-off stumps, and mosquito-plagued.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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This had probably once been some peasant's farm, with the burned-off fields merely extended into the strip.
Clear and Present Danger Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1989
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The burned-off meteor shielding could be replaced at some later date.
The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980
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