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- noun Plural form of
fagot .
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Examples
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It used to be a vital part of the woodland economy, coppiced to make baskets and hurdles, thatching spars and sticks, charcoal and fagots.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones Tobias Jones 2010
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At last the measure of his life was a handful of fagots.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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At last the measure of his life was a handful of fagots.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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Quickly, Ki-Gor piled more fagots on the fire, and as the flames leaped higher, he strained forward trying to make out the outlines of the creature that belonged to that pair of eyes.
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Then he heaped great fagots on the fire -- wasteful fagots, each of which had cost some woman hours of mountain climbing.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Without relaxing his watchful glare, Ki-Gor reached out and dropped some dry fagots on the coals.
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Archbishop Cranmer was tied to an iron chair, the kindling and fagots laid about his ankles and lit.
Martyr Mark Krieger 2010
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When some fagots had been piled up, Robert squatted on the ground to start the fire.
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Drowsy though he was, he arranged the thorn boma with great care, and stocked the fagots close to the fire.
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For the most part, unless someone starts ranting about “sniveling fagots” in the front pages of a major anthology, I have no problem withholding my own value judgments and looking for the most benevolent interpretations of the actions of literary folk.
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