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- noun Plural form of
fireguard .
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Examples
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All angles, throughout the building, had circular bricks to prevent patients injuring themselves, the open fires had locked fireguards and the hospital also offered improved Padded Rooms, that all important aid to the Modern System of humane treatment practised at this Asylum to safeguard patients during violent episodes without the need for physical or chemical restraint.8
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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All angles, throughout the building, had circular bricks to prevent patients injuring themselves, the open fires had locked fireguards and the hospital also offered improved Padded Rooms, that all important aid to the Modern System of humane treatment practised at this Asylum to safeguard patients during violent episodes without the need for physical or chemical restraint.8
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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All angles, throughout the building, had circular bricks to prevent patients injuring themselves, the open fires had locked fireguards and the hospital also offered improved Padded Rooms, that all important aid to the Modern System of humane treatment practised at this Asylum to safeguard patients during violent episodes without the need for physical or chemical restraint.8
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Chocolate fireguards would make an excellent Christmas novelty.
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Anyway, we had a nice chat, apart from that, and then we got a taxi home and the house is HUGE without all the fireguards around the gas fires.
Trip to Galway, Aran, and back again ailbhe 2005
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How foreign to an English eye was the flat, hedgeless landscape! with its vast satin-smooth fields of bluish-green wheat; its farmhouses with their ploughed fireguards and shelter-belts of young trees; its rare villages, each stretching in one long straggling line of wooden houses along the level earth; its scattered, treeless lakes, from which the duck rose as the train passed!
Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885
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· In the demo version not all fireplaces, materials and fireguards are available.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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Work today will concentrate on strengthening the north and south fireguards.
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The KWPP funds will be directed towards communities with approved wildfire protection plans providing strategic fireguards in areas in need of protection during the summer.
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By the way, got a few chocolate fireguards if anyone wants em. hehe Just take extras anyway. makes sense
Army Rumour Service 2009
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