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  • noun Plural form of incendiary.

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Examples

  • Her elders swept incendiaries from the rooftops with brooms and dustbin lids, while others refused to stand for God Save The Queen, and bitched that good old Neville was getting an unfair shake.

    "We apologise for any inconvenience caused." Not a sheep 2008

  • The incendiaries were a mix of magnesium and jellied gasoline that clung to the surface of whatever they struck, human beings included, and burned slowly at a high temperature.

    How The United States Came to Bomb Civilians 2006

  • Massachusetts; the establishment of a citadel in Boston; the stationing of a fleet in its harbor; the experiment of martial law; the transportation of "incendiaries" to England, and the prohibition of the

    Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Various 1856

  • "incendiaries" at home; and the Archbishop of Canterbury and eleven bishops passed a resolution declaring that if the French should land, or

    Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.

    How power, money and art are shifting to the East End 2011

  • Explosives shaped like lumps of coal nicknamed “Black Joe” and pocket-sized incendiaries with time-delayed fuses to start fires were sent to Europe.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • They took the position that those killed by the new type of weapon were no more dead than those killed by the types of bombs and incendiaries that the Americans had been dropping on Japanese cities for months.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Preferably taking the path less mined with unexploded incendiaries.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Diaghilev, in accordance with decadent tradition, drank champagne during the first world war, and made do with his own plots and incendiaries.

    Diaghilev: Lord of the dance Andrew O'Hagan 2010

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