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  • Stop the spread of the disease by eliminating cattle (healthy or diseased) in a sort of "fire-break" action.

    The cow killers 2006

  • Stop the spread of the disease by eliminating cattle (healthy or diseased) in a sort of "fire-break" action.

    The cow killers 2006

  • This is about the only country we've managed to throw a fire-break around yet.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "We'll follow the fire-break to that point up there, for a look around."

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • Following the canyon wall with her eyes -- as though in her mind she walked the thread-like path -- from Oak Knoll to the fire-break a mile from the reservoir; her gaze then traced the crest of the Galenas, resting finally upon that clump of pines high up on the point that was so clearly marked against the sky.

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • When the two men, following the Government trail that leads to the neighborhood where the girl's horse had been found, reached the fire-break on the summit of the Galenas, the officer said, "Aaron, you'll be of little use over there in that Pine Glen country, where you have never been."

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • An hour's riding took him to the end of the fire-break, and he saw that from there on he must go afoot.

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • Farther on, where the pipe-line again rounds the inward curve of the wall between two mountain spurs, they turned aside to follow the Government trail that leads to the fire-break on the summit of the Galenas and then down into the valley on the other side.

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • At the gap where the Galena trail crosses the fire-break, they again turned aside to make their leisure way along the broad, brush-cleared break that lies in many a fold and curve and kink like a great ribbon on the thin top of the ridge.

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • Where the Government trail crosses the fire-break on the crest of the

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

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