If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.

If the door opens inward and there is a fire, there can be a crush of people who run for the door and they will not be able to open it.

If one item in a package or stack initiates, it will usually propagate to the other items, creating a mass fire.

If a larger fire is necessary, the smith increases the air flowing into the fire as well as feeding and deepening the coke heart.

If he knew about Whitacre's embezzlement for three years, Lieber asks, why didn't Andreas fire Whitacre immediately?

If you have a number to harden, set water and alum over the fire ; and while it is boiling put in a handful of quills, the barrels only, for a minute, and then lay them by.

If the trigger was pulled with the hammer cocked, it would then fire.

Meinhof commented: " If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence.

If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

If there is no covering fire, the tank may be destroyed easily as it unable to move to protect itself.

If necessary using the first artillery fire for cover this process would be repeated until guns were close enough to be laid accurately to make a breach in the fortifications.

If the appliance is one whose purpose is for light or heat ( such as an incandescent lightbulb or electric oven ) then the lighting or heating elements may be considered as a type of fire ; if so, then turning them on constitutes both " lighting a fire " ( category 37 ) and " cooking " ( a form of baking, category 11 ), and turning them off would be " extinguishing a fire " ( category 36 ).

If you refuse, I'll have you killed on the spot and I swear I will ravage every island with fire and steel.

If a torch is made of sulfur mixed with lime, the fire will not diminish after being plunged into water.

If burying bodies close to a well-travelled trade-route, they would need to disguise the ' earthworks ' of their graveyard as a camp-site, tamping down the covering mounds and leaving some items of rubbish or remnants of a fire to ' explain ' the disturbances and obscure the burials.

If the recordist requires a volley of cannon fire, he may contact historical re-enactors or gun enthusiasts.

If the gunpowder took fire when the spirit was consumed, then the liquor was good.

If holding the ball, a player cannot run or attack unless he drops the ball by pressing the " fire " key.

If the " tickler " is held down too long it also floods the outside of the carburetor and the crankcase below, and is therefore a fire hazard.

If anyone told me that tongues of fire danced upon his shoulders as he spoke, I would believe it.

If it is top-killed and burned away in a larger fire, it easily resprouts and has a good supply of nutrients and water stored in its root system.

" If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.