bonfires

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