incendiary

• An incendiary, as well as a sheep-stealer, was liable to capital punishment; and so severely was the law strained upon these points, that he who set fire to a rick in a field, as well as he who found a half-dead sheep and carried it home, was condemned without mercy. —  Elizabeth Fry
• And those who hated feared him as they hated and feared the incendiary, the creeping thief, the midnight assassin; for he used their methods to attain his ends, along with a despot's power No man or woman who pricked his vanity, who incurred his displeasure, was safe from his vengeance. —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
• The mob had begun to vent its passions on the innocent Israelites, and the incendiary was at his work. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
• If he could not get the money for the timber, or at least some of it, quite evidently Lumley did not intend to allow any one else to have it, not even the state In his own mind Charley had no doubt whatever that the incendiary was Lumley, and that he had done exactly the things Charley pictured him as doing. —  The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol
• Fire!" screamed the little incendiary, as he ran panic-stricken toward the farm house And now Dick was racing as he had never done before, even over the football gridiron. —  The High School Boys' Training Hike

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