conflagration

• The glare of a conflagration is usually the first warning conveyed to the firemen, when instantly a score of engines are turned out, horses, that are always kept ready harnessed, are fastened to the shafts, and away they go, pell-mell, through the streets, every vehicle, to the Lord Mayor's or Prime Minister's carriage, being compelled to draw aside and give them room to pass. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The grass had been all consumed--the conflagration was at an end Mounting our horses, we rode out from the glade; and following the trail a few hundred yards farther, we emerged from the thicket, and stood upon the edge of the desolated plain CHAPTER SEVENTY A BURNT PRAIRIE The earth offers no aspect more drear and desolate than that of a burnt prairie. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• The whole country from Fort Brooke to Fort King was in a state of conflagration, and the whites were compelled to abandon everything, and seek protection under the forts. —  Diary in America, Series Two
• In a very short time the conflagration was over, and a dark column of smoke, which marked the spot where it had raged, was lifted slowly into the air. —  The Island Home
• They endured the terrific conflagration, and honoured God equally in their lives and deaths In the same month were executed at Bury, P. Humphrey, and J. and H. David, brothers. —  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

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