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- noun Plural form of
fire . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fire .
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Examples
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Assizes was convicted and sentenced to be hung, and was executed in December, 1833, after confessing that he had been the author of all the ten Shelford fires, and that his only motive for {169} committing the crimes was _to get the ale and the money he received for helping to extinguish the fires_!
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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United's wild celebrations illustrated the importance of the goal - and keeps the title fires burning at Old Trafford.
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The Company's solution to these limitations, naturally, is to travel back into the past, locate children who fit the profile for the immortality process and who won't be missed (orphans, children who would have otherwise died in fires, floods, and wars, etc.), and make them immortal with cybernetic implants.
REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009
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Does anyone else remember the Carl Sagan model that predicted nuclear winter over the Persian Gulf region as a result of the oil well fires from the first Gulf War?
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Remember when George Bush said that there would be less forest fires is there were less trees?
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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The results of no regulation whatsoever was lots of people dying in fires, rampant contagious disease, etc. (there were other mitigating factors involved as well in the fires and disease).
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Its failure to accurately predict the result of oil fires from the Gulf War does not prove that Global Warming cannot happen or anything like that.
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Johnson did his level best not to rise to the bait but his pointed suggestions that Gatland's team are "desperate" and "feeling the pressure" will further stoke the fires from a Welsh point of view ahead of next Friday night's opening game in Cardiff.
Martin Johnson: Wales are feeling the pressure before Six Nations 2011
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Fighting fires is more important than being a law professor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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They developed out of people dying horribly in fires because there were no separations between adjacent buildings and because buildings had too few exits.
oroboros commented on the word fires
Serif in reverse.
July 22, 2007