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  • NAIAS The mid-engine, carbon-chassis 918 RSR marries a fire-spitting 563-hp V8 with two traction motors on the front wheels, providing up to 204 hp of temporary, corner-exiting electric boost.

    WSJ Article 2011

  • A competition version of the 918 Spyder seen last year, the mid-engine, carbon-chassis 918 RSR marries a fire-spitting 563-hp V8 with two traction motors on the front wheels, providing up to 204 hp of temporary, corner-exiting electric boost.

    Lessons from the Auto Show Dan Neil 2011

  • Those at the front strove madly to retreat from the fire-spitting guns in their very faces, and those in the rear pressed as madly forward to the attack.

    THE SUNLANDERS 2010

  • Excavators in London awaken a hibernating fire-spitting dragon, who smokes all of the workers except young Quinn (who grows up to be Batman, a neat trick).

    Dusk Before the Dawn » 2008 » October 2008

  • In the end you can also add jalapeños, Tabasco sauce, or any other fire-spitting spices you like to make it brutal and heavy!!!

    Mosh Potatoes Steve “Buckshot” Seabury 2010

  • In the end you can also add jalapeños, Tabasco sauce, or any other fire-spitting spices you like to make it brutal and heavy!!!

    Mosh Potatoes Steve “Buckshot” Seabury 2010

  • What followed was typical of Ranger battles of the day: The white men took cover, the Indians charged, men on both sides died, and the Indians finally withdrew, unwilling to take the losses it would require to pry the white men, with their fire-spitting Kentucky rifles, from their positions.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • "Ten minutes with Jack FM," says an aide, and Balls is off, with narrowed eyes and fire-spitting purpose: "The apology shouldn't simply be to MPs, but the schools that have been misled … This is a moral issue … it's a huge blow to our children."

    Labour leadership: The contenders 2010

  • Just as Mr. Snoozleberg walks across the top of the fire-spitting machine, click on the valve again.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • But they did have a rap band, a fire-spitting art car, a bunch of people on stilts, the fire department, a solar-driven skateboard, a bicycle brigade and someone dressed up as George Bush.

    Eat your heart out, Texas: A typical Sunday in Berkeley 2006

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