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gasoline-soaked

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  • Their hair was shorn to the scalp, which was wiped with a gasoline-soaked rag as a disinfectant.

    Clearing the Fog Patrick Marnham 2011

  • Health reform foes send Dem condom and shredded, gasoline-soaked flag

    Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010

  • As I write I work opt the idea -- gasoline, balls of oakum, caps and gunpowder from a few cartridges, Roman candles, and flares blue, red, and green, shallow metal receptacles to carry the explosive and inflammable stuff; and a trigger-like arrangement by which, pulling on a string, the caps are exploded in the gunpowder and fire set to the gasoline-soaked oakum and to the flares and candles.

    CHAPTER XLIV 2010

  • A few years ago, I performed in an Off-Broadway show that required me to dress like a woman, and putting on my mascara was like falling down a well of fire in a gasoline-soaked suit.

    Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 7 2010

  • It took the merest touch to ignite the gasoline-soaked rope.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • It took the merest touch to ignite the gasoline-soaked rope.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Assistant State Fire Marshal Marc McNeal says residents of 12 apartments were briefly displaced Wednesday evening while authorities removed the gasoline-soaked carpet and ventilated the building on Heather Ridge Drive.

    Md. officials seek gasoline vandal Associated Press 2010

  • It took the merest touch to ignite the gasoline-soaked rope.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • He jumped, a sudden nervous fear in his face, and hurled the bottle toward the gasoline-soaked grass of the bank behind him.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • SAN ANGELO, Texas, June 20 (UPI) -- A gasoline-soaked San Angelo, Texas, man who caught fire after being shocked with a police Taser has died of his burns in a hospital.

    Archive 2007-06-17 Bill Crider 2007

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