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‘It seems someone tried to set fire to the house Liz was renting just after four this morning, Mum
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have preferred to wipe the keyboard with a tissue rather than set fire to the building, but he stayed quiet rather than feeding the argument
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fluid into the football and set fire to it, yet they carried on playing as normal, passing and even
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observing a moment of silence honoring the victims of the World Trade Center, some of the fans in attendance set fire to the American Flag
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Pulling out the sock, I succeeded in slipping it over the ostrich's head but my shout of triumph was short lived because the sparks raised by my tin hat had set fire to the winch rope
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That made the spark blaze up and set fire to her blood
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14 But that fire was from Satan; For he had gathered trees and dry grasses, and had carried and brought them to the cave, and had set fire to them, in order to consume the cave and what was in it
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When the opposition gave me a hard time, I had some cronies set fire to their premises and spread the word around
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14 But that fire was from Satan; For he had gathered trees and dry grasses and had carried and brought them to the cave and had set fire to them in order to consume the cave and what was in it
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“With practice, I will improve! And only set fire to the monsters!”
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With torches and poured oil, they had set fire to each building in Eid and to each ship left behind and to the docks
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The candles of the table candelabrum, which had been prepared one month earlier for the occasion, with paraffin, miscellany extracts and musk, fell down, and began to set fire to the tablecloth
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You set fire to a puddle of gas running along the ground and move out of the way, press closer for position
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Someone’s set fire to the place, but surely it can’t burn, it’s brick
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Why had he stopped Lance from attacking Corso? Was it because the kid was a homosexual? How had his parents reacted to the letter condemning him for calling the doctor? What had happened at Bart’s on the night of the attack? Who did he think the attackers were? Why didn’t he admit he had been smoking pot in the cricket shed and set fire to himself? How well did he know Ralf Boreham? What was his relationship with Bart Vaselly? What was his relationship with the headmaster? Had he had any disagreements with him lately?
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‘If it could be proved that Karim knew for certain it was Osbairne who murdered Corso, attacked Vaselly, set fire to the shed, and was going to try to murder them again, then there is, perhaps, a motive
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He wondered why a man like Diego Olivera, a habitual criminal who burgled houses would deliberately set fire to a house with five people in it, he wondered what the possible motivation could be but he could not find one single fact that would satisfy his imagination
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Would this man have any motive to kill if he was disturbed or would he just run away and try and escape? Olivera had spent 10 years of his life locked up in one prison or another so he was not afraid of a spell inside so why would he change a lifetimes habit of running and suddenly set fire to a house
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“Which is what everybody does all of the time in this physical school, correct?” She stared as if there was something in her words that was supposed to set fire to my imagination
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“Which is what everybody does all of the time in this school, correct?” She stared as if there was something in her words that was supposed to set fire to my imagination
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On the way up the central stairway of the pyramid Coatl ignored several platforms with doorways and kept going until he reached the top and the beautifully decorated wooden temple that perched there, without ceremony we entered the temple and the blood began to flow starting first with the temple guards and then anyone foolish enough to challenge Coatl as he made his way from room to room to halls and passages killing all he met, we descended four floors and there were no more passages or rooms to search, we exited and found ourselves halfway down the pyramid, Coatl covered from head to toes in blood didn’t hesitate but descended from the pyramid and headed for the living quarters to the rear of the temple, the first dormitory that we entered belonged to the sisters of the moon, fortunately for them his madness drew the line at killing females instead he ordered them all out and set fire to the building, we then entered the other building and he killed everyone old priests, young priests, even the boy novices who hid in the cupboards, we then set fire to this building as well, other than females the cult of the moon was now a part of history, remembering the temple at the top of the pyramid Coatl sent four soldiers to destroy it and soon the smoke from the temple of the moon was rising to the heavens
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office? Set fire to their waste cans? Act like a madman? Was this me? Was this what PI’s did?
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If not, he was prepared to set fire to it
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Iraqi’s set fire to the oil—the black smoke blotted out the sun and could
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Leaping over the table, Cossack Charlie pulled the steak off the wall, slung it on the floor, sabre danced over it, set fire to it and slammed the now char-grilled and smouldering hunk of meat back onto his plate
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captain reported that the girl was stil out there somewhere and that a minion had set fire to the
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[rioters] set fire to the buildings, the Han Chinese remained
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�I was out near the swamps just in case I set fire to anything
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” Hyperbole and mixed-metaphor aside, if it was so, the woman knew it could set fire to the entire world, As Jewish history and biblical verse had it, the Jews could not regain their holiest of holies, the Temple Mount, until a red cow (supposedly rarer than a flying pig) was born in Jerusalem
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Thereupon he shouted in his strongest voice: ‘Sir… Commander… all of them have surrendered and they ask for our mercy and pity, so send me only one soldier please… Abu Mohammad! They are all submissive and there is no need to shoot or set fire to the orchard
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that fuckin' Chambers set fire to my locker?" He had
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In cold blood, he set fire to the wood!
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It was established later that the tenant who had had his contents stolen, had set fire to the premises so that he could make another claim against the insurance company
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Pretending to survive in a post-apocalypse world set fire to her imagination and teaming up with Kirk Allmond to co-author the "What Zombies Fear" series finally gave her an outlet to express and bring her characters to life
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He stared at the ceiling, wishing he could set fire to it
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it would set fire to wood,
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didn"t even know that when they set fire to the clearing and its
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Stone-age tribes all over the world regularly set fire to entire landscapes
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We set fire to entire forests and plains long before we entered the Serengeti Plains where this tactic did not work
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Winnie’s opponents set fire to her house
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He went on, “They set fire to the long-house and that’s when I rode in
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Smith thought about the three men who had set fire to his house
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Preachers, with gags and notes and speeches, they set fire to their Admiral-cigarettes, on the Blunt and antique beaches
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In keeping with this is what they relate of that shepherd who set fire to the famous temple of Diana, by repute one of the seven wonders of the world, and burned it with the sole object of making his name live in after ages; and, though it was forbidden to name him, or mention his name by word of mouth or in writing, lest the object of his ambition should be attained, nevertheless it became known that he was called Erostratus
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'And what have you done to aspire to this wear; and I set fire to the villa San-Felice to procure a wedding-dress for my betrothed
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So felons were not lodged and fed better than soldiers, (to say nothing of paupers,) and seldom set fire to their prisons with the excusable object of improving the flavor of their soup
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Still watching me, he laid them one upon the other, folded them long-wise, gave them a twist, set fire to them at the lamp, and dropped the ashes into the tray
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Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament and knelt down and he told Father Conroy that one of the candles was just going to set fire to the flowers and Father Conroy got up and settled it all right and she could see the gentleman winding his watch and listening to the works and she swung her leg more in and out in time
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'If he send me his poniard, it will signify that the emperor's intentions are not favorable, and I am to set fire to the powder; if, on the contrary, he send me his ring, it will be a sign that the emperor pardons him, and I am to extinguish the match and leave the magazine untouched
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To bring him round, she set fire to the antler of a deer and wafted the pungent smoke under his nose
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A few excruciating minutes later a nurse injected me with the Dilaudid1 and then the pain abated and I decided not to set fire to the hospital after all
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I set fire to my car for the insurance money?”
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I said, “I think that Tommy set fire to my car
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“One of these insects set fire to my car
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Next time, they could set fire to me
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We set fire to it
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And he set fire to the whole town when he left and burned everything
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Why, cousin, one of them went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself, and set fire to his Tower, if you can believe it
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“I set fire to our house because it was the only way I could see what I felt
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She leaned over the table and said sweetly to me, “Why did you set fire to the house? The house was insured for millions, non?”
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The Iraqis set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields in a fit of sour grapes, creating an ecological disaster for the whole region
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As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match
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No one had given Tushin orders where and at what to fire, but after consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchenko, for whom he had great respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the village
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In the center Tushin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance
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But Count Rostopchin, who now taunted those who left Moscow and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions displaying the icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and thirty-six of them removed the balloon that was being constructed by Leppich; now hinted that he would burn Moscow and related how he had set fire to his own house; now wrote a proclamation to the French solemnly upbraiding them for having destroyed his Orphanage; now claimed the glory of having hinted that he would burn Moscow and now repudiated the deed; now ordered the
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Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those ferocious heads
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The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers
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He didn’t say anything about a celebration; he merely gathered the wood, set fire to it, and watched it burn
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Then Johnny winged a lantern, and it crashed in flames and set fire to three dwarfs, so that they had to be put out with a punch bowl
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There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to observe it at the time
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They were unable to take anything away with them; and when they saw that everything had fallen into the hands of the French, they set fire to their own ancient capital, their holy city, the centre of the empire
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The troops, who had orders to burn everything, smashed in the doors and windows of the houses and set fire to them with torches, cartridges, and even ammunition-boxes
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Combustible materials had indeed been put under them for this very purpose, but no one took the trouble to set fire to them
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It is not surprising, therefore, that the Russians themselves set fire to their homes, and that the French met with nothing but villages in ashes, and wells filled with carrion
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We, of course, thought that some of our own people, in plundering, had set fire to the buildings through carelessness
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The merchants, of one accord, set fire to their shops that they might not become “purveyors” to the enemy
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“Some think,” he said, “that the Emperor ought to set fire to the public buildings, march to Tula in order to be near Poland, and spend the winter in a friendly country where he can easily obtain all he requires from the stores of Dantzic, Kovno, Vilna, and Minsk
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Sometimes they would set fire to the houses in which the officers had taken refuge, and sit motionless through the night around these monster bonfires
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The last entry in the diary was made just before the fatal shot, and in it he mentioned that he was writing almost in the dark and hardly able to distinguish the letters, that he did not want to light a candle for fear that it should set fire to something when he was dead, " And I don't want to light it and then, before shooting, put it out like my life," he added strangely, almost the last words
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He may suddenly, after hoarding impressions for many years, abandon everything and go off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage for his soul's salvation, or perhaps he will suddenly set fire to his native village, and perhaps do both
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“Why? There are children of twelve years old, who have a longing to set fire to something and they do set things on fire, too
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“Malthus was a friend of humanity, but, with ill-founded moral principles, the friend of humanity is the devourer of humanity, without mentioning his pride; for, touch the vanity of one of these numberless philanthropists, and to avenge his self-esteem, he will be ready at once to set fire to the whole globe; and to tell the truth, we are all more or less like that
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Owing to the strong wind, the fact that the houses at the riverside were almost all wooden, and that they had been set fire to in three places, the fire spread quickly and enveloped the whole quarter with extraordinary rapidity
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The owner of this new house, who lived in the neighbourhood, rushed up as soon as he saw it in flames and with the help of his neighbours pulled apart a pile of faggots which had been heaped up by the side wall and set fire to
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If the owner of the house had not run up at that moment the burning faggot stack would certainly have set fire to the house and "it would have been difficult to find out from the charred corpses how they had died
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"Let me know what business you had to set fire to the town without permission
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"What's this! We, we set fire to the town? That is laying the blame on others!" they exclaimed
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After a careful look round, Pyotr Stepanovitch got up and went out on tiptoe, closed the door, left the candle on the table in the outer room, thought a moment, and resolved not to put it out, reflecting that it could not possibly set fire to anything
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But the landlady could not resist remarking at this point that the house in Crooked Lane had been burnt owing to a bald wench; that there was a bald-headed wench living there, that she had lighted a candle and set fire to the lumber room; but nothing would happen in her place, and everything would be all right in the flats
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They put it all in the hollow of the willow and set fire to it
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"Righteous judges! He threatens to set fire to my house
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The news had already reached them about how Gavrílo had been sentenced to be flogged, and how he had threatened to set fire to the house
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“This case is perfectly revolting,” he said; “it is very likely that the owner himself set fire to the building in order to get the insurance money, and the chief thing is that there is no evidence to prove the Menshoffs’ guilt
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There, as they say and surmise, after inquiry and violation (that is still unestablished) she poured kerosene on herself, set fire to it and on the third day died
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They had already heard of Gavryl’s sentence, and of how he threatened to set fire to Ivan’s house
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“He is so desperate,” thought Ivan, “that he may set fire to my house regardless of the danger to his own
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No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the village
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In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance
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But Count Rostopchín, who now taunted those who left Moscow and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions displaying the icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to remove icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and thirty-six of them removed the balloon that was being constructed by Leppich; now hinted that he would burn Moscow and related how he had set fire to his own house; now wrote a proclamation to the French solemnly upbraiding them for having destroyed his Orphanage; now claimed the glory of having hinted that he would burn Moscow and now repudiated the deed; now ordered the people to catch all spies and bring them to him, and now reproached them for doing so; now expelled all the French residents from Moscow, and now allowed Madame Aubert-Chalmé (the center of the whole French colony in Moscow) to remain, but ordered the venerable old postmaster Klyucharëv to be arrested and exiled for no particular offense; now assembled the people at the Three Hills to fight the French and now, to get rid of them, handed over to them a man to be killed and himself drove away by a back gate; now declared that he would not survive the fall of Moscow, and now wrote French verses in albums concerning his share in the affair—this man did not understand the meaning of what was happening but merely wanted to do something himself that would astonish people, to perform some patriotically heroic feat; and like a child he made sport of the momentous, and unavoidable event—the abandonment and burning of Moscow—and tried with his puny hand now to speed and now to stay the enormous, popular tide that bore him along with it
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” Already the Dorpat student had divested himself of his tunic and rolled up his white shirt-sleeves above his elbows, and now, planting his feet firmly apart, he proceeded to set fire to the rum in the punch-bowl