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  • So at the centre and round it we get earth and water, the heaviest and coldest elements, by themselves; round them and contiguous with them, air and what we commonly call fire.

    Meteorology 2002

  • It wants to bubble up to the surface and drown us all in fire.

    Sometimes You Gotta Roll the Hard Six wendigomountain 2010

  • At one point, I had what I thought was a beautiful beginning sentence for the Magnus Somnium: "It ended in fire."

    Starting at the Beginning Ulysses 2010

  • At one point, I had what I thought was a beautiful beginning sentence for the Magnus Somnium: "It ended in fire."

    Archive 2010-07-01 Ulysses 2010

  • I liked it because starting a book talking about an ending really raises some questions, and because it book-ended (pun unintentional) nicely with the final line of the story: "The sun rose, and the new day began in fire."

    Archive 2010-07-01 Ulysses 2010

  • Uh oh, he said 9 – 11 was almost like the Reichstag fire.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rhetoric of Opposition 2010

  • I liked it because starting a book talking about an ending really raises some questions, and because it book-ended (pun unintentional) nicely with the final line of the story: "The sun rose, and the new day began in fire."

    Starting at the Beginning Ulysses 2010

  • May 22nd, 2008 2: 32 pm ET fuel for Obama to use against the bomb bomb bomb McCain fire.

    GI Bill poses challenge to McCain 2008

  • Good thing I have non-electrical heating aka the fire.

    Archive 2010-05-01 orannia 2010

  • Good thing I have non-electrical heating aka the fire.

    Cheating? orannia 2010

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