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- noun Plural form of
hellburner .
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Examples
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Not long afterwards, he sent the two "hellburners," the 'Fortune' and the
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Not long afterwards, he sent the two "hellburners," the 'Fortune' and the
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Not long afterwards, he sent the two "hellburners," the 'Fortune' and the
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Not long afterwards, he sent the two "hellburners," the 'Fortune' and the
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Why could the Eye Corps not discover who stole Service hellburners?
The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987
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A standard weapons pack for a heavy cruiser consisted of a dozen tacheads and four hellburners.
The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987
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There had been two hellburners; the cities on which they bad fallen were still-smoking pits literally burned into the ground and the bedrock below, at the center of five hundred mile radii of slag and lava and scorched earth and burned forests.
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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He was buying ammunition, everything from pistol cartridges to hellburners.
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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Staff brass don't like to get caught out in the rain, not when it's raining hellburners and planetbusters.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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A few looked apprehensively at the ceiling, as though expecting the hellburners and planet-busters and nega-matter-bombs at any moment.
A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934
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