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  • The next morning, with everything of value collected and sent aboard, they had started cross-country for five hundred miles to another city, the first hundred over a countryside asmoke from burning villages Valkanhayn's men had pillaged the night before.

    Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

  • They halted by one of the bunching-machines, and saw the parts dexterously brought together into the crude semblance of the product, saw the embryo cigars thrust into wooden forms which would shape them yet further for their uses in a world asmoke ....

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • The inquest heard that asmoke alarm in the home of Faherty's neighbour Tom Mannion had gone off at about 3am on 22 December last year.

    The Guardian World News Henry McDonald 2011

  • It appeareth to me that even to praise one's self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly, wishful coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke. "

    Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

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