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Examples
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She collected vintage American Fire-King glassware and enjoyed making handicrafts, Mr. Toba recalled.
Fateful Choice on a Day of Disaster Gordon Fairclough 2011
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Chabert, the Fire-King, exhibited his powers of resisting poisons, and withstanding extreme heat.
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He called himself "The Great Inferno Fire-King," and his novelty consisted in having a strip of wet carpeting running parallel to the hot iron plates on which he walked barefoot, and stepping on it occasionally and back onto the hot iron, when
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"Into the Fire-King they go, they dream in his heart."
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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He called himself "The Great Inferno Fire-King," and his novelty consisted in having a strip of wet carpeting running parallel to the hot iron plates on which he walked barefoot, and stepping on it occasionally and back onto the hot iron, when a loud hissing and a cloud of steam bore ample proof of the high temperature of the metal.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900
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Chabert, the Fire-King, exhibited his powers of resisting poisons, and withstanding extreme heat.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900
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_ -- Thanks to the Fire-King, he has done for the ancient log-house, though next time he mounts his "hot-copper filly," I do not desire a second neck-and-neck race with him.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Her name appears in the inscriptions connected with both places; and she is probably the "Anammelech," whom the Sepharvites honored in conjunction with Adrammelech, the "Fire-King."
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Happy to have escaped so easily, he thanked the Water-King and set out to find the Fire-King.
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Alexander Chodzko 1847
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Fire-King steamer of one thousand horse-power, with his mighty and troublous throb, his smoke, his exasperated steam, his clangor, and fire and fury, his oils and smells.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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