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Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.
The mudwagon had caught fire also.
He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.
This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.
Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.
Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.
The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.
he had helped fight an oil-well fire that raged six days and nights.
Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.
Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.
A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.
Mortars had demolished the defense ministry and set fire to the American Embassy next door.
For the next hour he scrambled happily up and down the ladder, sharing the excitement of reporters who had seen McKinley's assassination, the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, and the Hall-Mills trial.
I practically had to sign your life away, you'll probably fire me for some of the deals I had to go for, but '' --
The candle had been stuck on a tin lid so it wouldn't set fire to the crate when it guttered out.
A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.
At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??
The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.

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The fire of the colors was gone ; ;
And that this power which the prophetic word calls God, as has been also amply demonstrated, and Angel, is not numbered different in name only like the light of the sun but is indeed something numerically distinct, I have discussed briefly in what has gone before ; when I asserted that this power was begotten from the Father, by His power and will, but not by abscission, as if the essence of the Father were divided ; as all other things partitioned and divided are not the same after as before they were divided: and, for the sake of example, I took the case of fires kindled from a fire, which we see to be distinct from it, and yet that from which many can be kindled is by no means made less, but remains the same.
As hunters they had learned to fire from cover, from a prone position and to make the first shot count, knowing that if they missed, the game would either be long gone or could charge and potentially kill them.
The fire has almost gone out and it is winter.
He takes pleasure in bad deeds as if they were good, but later, when his anger is gone, he suffers as if burned with fire.
The people of Israel had even gone as far as building high altars to Baal in order to burn their children in fire as offerings.
Sigurd had already gone through the fire once and promised his marriage to Brynhild, but he is cursed by Andvarinaut and bewitched.
The other benefit is that once the fire has gone through an area the tender shoots of the fast regenerating grasses attract wallabies into a clearly defined area.
The few one-room schoolhouses are all gone ; the last one was the Hewitt School, destroyed by fire set by vandals ( it had been the former Methodist church before a new, larger church was built ).
Overall, about 4 / 5 of Tveitt's production are now gone from that fire, which included symphonies, concertos, choral works, operas, and many piano works.
By the time the fire had gone out, popular opinion held that Angélique had set the fire, and she was arrested the following morning.
Legend has it, when a tenant saw the Rent Man from Butterley Co ; advancing towards their houses, they would knock on the adjoining house wall, using the metal poker from their coal fire, and alert their neighbour of his presence and this would continue along the terraced row and they would all lock their doors and wait until he ’ d gone away!
< p > The imperial collection had its origins in the first century B. C., and had gone through many vicissitudes of fire, civil wars and foreign invasions in the centuries that followed.
On June 20, 2005, the E-M-F Plant on Piquette Street ( at John R ) caught fire and within a few hours it was gone.
As hunters they had learned to fire from cover, from a prone position and to make the first shot count, knowing that if they missed the game would be long gone.
" On March 1, 1973, Judge Joel J. Tyler ruled Deep Throat to be obscene, issuing his opinion on the film as " this feast of carrion and squalor ," " a nadir of decadence " and " a Sodom and Gomorrah gone wild before the fire.
When Vaccha asks about the status of an arahant after death, the Buddha asks him in which direction a fire goes when it has gone out.
Vaccha replies that the question " does not fit the case ... For the fire that depended on fuel ... when that fuel has all gone, and it can get no other, being thus without nutriment, it is said to be extinct.
A forest is an example of an excitable medium: if a wildfire burns through the forest, no fire can return to a burnt spot until the vegetation has gone through its refractory period and regrown.
The relatively short distance to travel meant that the battalions tended to land in the correct order and not become mixed as had happened with the first companies to land, however, with the element of surprise gone, the second wave was under constant fire.
Major Oscar Ramón Jaimet has gone on record saying in the Argentinean newspaper La Gaceta that he had designated Sub-Lieutenant Franco to cover the Argentinean withdrawal and that Argentinean artillery fire was brought down in error amongst the company.
Dr. Worley was killed in the fire after he had gone back in to rescue his machines.
The Parliament's development committee was cautious though about the expenditure and he was also criticised for his slow response with one MEP comparing him to " a fireman who arrives at the scene after the fire has gone out ".

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