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It averts a bombing campaign that would spread another bush-fire of mutual loathing through the world, and forestalls the risk of an endless Gazan Missile Crisis at the heart of the Middle East.

Johann Hari: Does This Mean War Between Israel and Iran Can Be Averted? 2009

A red and angry sunset was fading over the Nile like a dying bush-fire.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

Into the ma light blinking in the glare, but scowling, the red hair that fringed his bald pate burning like a bush-fire, and Ins shoulders hunched aggressively, came Jan Paulus.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

But there is no vaccine on earth to counteract the newest virus we have produced -- and it's as contagious as a bush-fire.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

But there is no vaccine on earth to counteract the newest virus we have produced -- and it's as contagious as a bush-fire.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

But there is no vaccine on earth to counteract the newest virus we have produced — and it's as contagious as a bush-fire.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

To tread out a roaring bush-fire, or capture alive a wild beast, were some of the tasks imposed as daily training for his would-be warriors.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke

"It's all along of that bush-fire last year, when we lost everything."

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

It ought to have been done two years ago, but the Government have given us grace when we explained about the bush-fire.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

The beach was empty, the villages seemed deserted; the trees far off stood in unstirring clumps, as if painted; the white smoke of some invisible bush-fire spread itself low over the shores of the bay like a settling fog.

Tales of Unrest 1920