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  • noun Plural form of bonfire.

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Examples

  • What used to be a pleasant reminder of bonfires is now a brutal reality that the fires could once again spread quickly and threaten our home and of course, those in our neighboring communities.

    The Wicked Witch of the West « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting 2007

  • I wish parliament could be reformed so that select committees had executive power to prevent the government from doing things that are not in the public interest like this so-called bonfires of the quangos.

    MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011

  • I wish parliament could be reformed so that select committees had executive power to prevent the government from doing things that are not in the public interest like this so-called bonfires of the quangos.

    MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011

  • Savonarola had become famous for the bonfires, called bonfires of the vanities.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • He did not recall bonfires being lighted for Halloween when he was a boy here.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • Bonfires blazed along the front of that blotch, seven of them in all, and Pol saw why the Lord Marshal had called the bonfires cursed.

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • For the children, the bonfires were a source of wonder and delight.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

  • The wild roses have fruited, and cover the low bushes like elfin bonfires.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • But we need hardly consider whether the ceremonies of which the bonfires are the remnant, were observed on the hill-tops and other high places because the latter were already sacred, or, conversely, the hill tops and other high places were held sacred because of the ceremonies enacted there; for in either case the sanctity remains.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • For he knew well, what kind of bonfires would soon be burning.

    A Child's History of England 2007

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