How To Use Afire In A Sentence
-
William Safire used it in 1983, in fact, saying it was "bureaucratese for an office without work to do.
Justin Snider: Rubber Rooms: Gone From New York City, But Alive Elsewhere?
-
If your first thought on seeing one-of-a-kind lamps is "Interesting, but is it so amateurishly wired it will conflagrate, setting my home afire, destroying all my belongings, including my irreplaceable collection of back issues of the New York Times Home section?" then your fears will be assuaged by the knowledge that a creator of these particular lamps, Tom Blake, left, is a licensed New York City electrician who has worked on the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings.
Post-gazette.com - News
-
Thereupon he waxed distracted, with a heart afire for love of the chief damsel and repenting him that he had not stolen her plumery.
Arabian nights. English
-
Longtime residents recall seeing police cars overturned and set afire because the officers had dared tried to patrol here.
-
You can send financial support to their World Headquarters and Main Mead Hall "For reasons of orthographic purity, we prefer to accept donations in Icelandic krona"; I trust all upholders of True English will join this brave cause, and I expect William Safire's next column to be in Anglo-Saxon.
Languagehat.com: THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH MOVEMENT.
-
C., dumped gasoline on the bodies and set them afire.
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
It contained a great hall but was considerably altered following afire in 1871.
-
I fully expect to read a far more erudite explanation of our use of the word recalibrate by William Safire any week now.
Liz Neumark: Have you used the word recalibrate this week?
-
And in the end, the gambling theater is exploded and set afire.
-
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
SAFIRE: Well, language maven, and maven, of course, is a Yiddish word for connoisseur.
CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2008
-
His bellowed anti-Europe diatribes breathe the monomania that still sets the conference afire.
-
A 26-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself afire in protest against corruption and harassment by police.
The Arabian Knights
-
Hundreds of small wooden fishing boats are set afire and dozens are torn to pieces by the blast.
-
Twenty-two years later, Bork is remembered more as a verb -- to "bork" -- which conservative columnist William Safire defined as to engage in a vicious attack on "a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media.
Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"
-
They set the stage afire with their foot movements.
-
A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.
-
Longtime residents recall seeing police cars overturned and set afire because the officers had dared tried to patrol here.
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
focused light rays can set something afire
-
She kicked up some duff and some doty sticks at the edge of the pile and set it afire.
Cold Mountain
-
All Danlo's senses were afire, and he became aware of ten different tracks of conversation, all at once.
THE BROKEN GOD
-
forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
-
The litter was dumped at a common site and set afire.
-
a heart afire for love of the chief damsel and repenting him that he had not stolen her plumery.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
-
: www. mediafire.com mixtape features music from yeasayer, drake, mark mothersbaugh, usher+nicki minaj, volcano choir, jay electronica, and moreeee! www. facebook.com --- follow for updates! www. myspace.com/emanuelvinson --- friend to hear more of my (original) music, and download my albums (for free)! www. twitter.com/emancan --- find out what I ate for breakfast!
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep
-
Messer and Mentavlos say male cadets dampened the fronts of their sweatshirts with nail polish remover and set them afire.
-
All day tepee poles, lodge skins, dried meat, cooking utensils, and other paraphernalia from the abandoned Sioux village were stacked in huge piles and set afire.
-
Hundreds of small wooden fishing boats are set afire and dozens are torn to pieces by the blast.
-
In the past, in Hawaii, oiled sticks of mahoe wood were set afire and thrown from cliffs in quick succession as "fireworks.
Chapter 5
-
William Safire, back in 2002, called limn a "vogue word" and gave it a life span of
Boston Globe -- Ideas section
-
Most were put in a pile, doused with gas and fuel oil, and set afire.
-
White fumes rose from tear gas fired by the French, and black smoke billowed from a roadblock of burning metal drums set afire at the base gates by the loyalists.
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
Dale an 'me was sittin', about two in the mornin ', at the station fire smokin' our pipes (for it was my turn on duty) an 'chattin' away about one thing an 'another, when somehow we got upon tellin' our experiences, an 'Dale he tells me a story o' how he was once called to a fire in a cemetary, an 'had to go down among the coffins -- for they was afire -- an' what a fright some o 'his men got, when, just as he had finished, an' all my flesh was creepin 'at wot I'd heard, there comes a ring at the bell an' a call to a fire in Portland Street.
Fighting the Flames
-
Tales profe6io funt quam plurimi; at non quisquis converfus eft, ut puerorum fimilis evadat, id dTecutus eft» ut pueris fimilis fiat; fed quantum unus - quisque ab eo, quem diximus, puerorum circa animi afireftus habitu abeft, tantumdem abeft, ut ad puero* rum fimilitudinem accedat.
Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine
-
There had been a riot over in C Block at breakfast time, and one of the trusties, suspected of grassing, had been doused in hot fat, and set afire.
-
Manchuria is afire with labor strife because of the restructiruings.
Our Loss, China's Non-gain, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
-
The bush is afire, Moses discovered, and took off his shoes to dance.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing
-
Longtime residents recall seeing police cars overturned and set afire because the officers had dared tried to patrol here.
-
afire with annihilating invective
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
Kitteh: hey kid, gives mee the pasafire, u is hoggin….
Tonight on Medical Mysteries… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
-
SEAFURY Aircraft were not on line till much much later, SEAFIRES, which were the navalised version of the Spitfire were but not Till 1942, which means the poxy arsed Fulmar Aircraft were on deck of the British carriers at the time.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!
-
Now, hand me a glass of sweet tea Mr. Simpson and finish telling the story about how you "catched yourself afire" while welding stuff.
Mark L. Walberg: What I've Learned On Antiques Roadshow
-
It is the excelsior from the tea set that Kenneth mails to Rhoda that she sets afire to murder Leroy.
-
Several involve body-shaped depressions in the earth that are filled with fabric or other combustibles, set afire and left as an imprint of ash.
-
And he took what may have been a swipe at fellow word maven William Safire for putting the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" into the vice president's mouth.
NBC News Correspondent Was Tart-Tongued Grammar Guru
-
Safire advises, ‘an obnoxious male showoff seeking to attract females is derided as a floss or as engaged in flossing.’
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
William Safire noted that the football term smashmouth had become ubiquitous, thanks in part to the debut of the XFL, the more ferocious alternative to the
NYT > Home Page
-
Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press BECKONING WARMTH: Pakistani children gathered to warm themselves at afire in a slum in Islamabad Friday.
Photos of the Day: Nov. 25
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.
-
Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery.
-
It is the only example of a Seafire flying anywhere in the world, and may also be the only airworthy example of an aircraft built in South Marston.
-
It looks like Safire is assuming a metathesis and then a reshaping to match other cular words, which would supply a/y.
-
It wasn't just the acetone now, I realized; his whole body was afire.
NIGHT SISTERS
-
For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
-
It is currently 09 Apr 2010, 15: 08 patch 2.2.2 dvd burner downloads download de games de pc yahoo 6.0 dvd burner downloads archive download charmed full seasons audio download niv psalms thunderbird downloads for mac how to download myspace video freefont downloads powered by vbulletin free music free burner downloadss for backstreet boys download ulead dvd workshop 2 free dvd downloads japanese on computer including characters tally software free burner downloads dvd receive file download too slow cathedral choir free dvd burner downloadss free alizee video free dvd burners americas army download for vista kakashi gaiden free burner downloads dvd burner downloads kernal 32 dll free foo fighter music downloads pet dragon downloads direct free dvd burner xxx anime nokia 6630 edge download speed virus free downloads dell training dvd free burner downloads opera download flv microsoft sudoku download eset nod32 crack keygen free dvd burners bitcomet mac free burner downloads free full metal alchemist wallpapers download lesbian hentai mobile download windows 98 free dvd burners free how to download sims 2 north atlantic 1986 game download free free dvd burner microsoft office 2000 premium eset smart security free burner downloads softpedia historische koersfiles aex aandelen free download stephen lynch downloads free dvd downloads eminem mp3 free dvd burner downloads inconvenient truth ppt versacheck programs free dvd downloads vanguard trial download download free macintosh removal spyware free dvd downloads xp-antispy fun download games mediafire sex movies download links download msn messenger7. 0 sims 2 skin download anime free dvd burners the winner toyota tundra wallpaper free dvd downloadss the wolfman download free dvd downloads of capdetworks v2. 5 philip webcam free burner downloads fabdvd free dvd downloads download ff3 download dragon ball games for pc photowiz contrast master free burner downloads
PalmInfocenter
-
He perceived that another part of the fence was afire and that it was fast running along the dried grass to the ginhouse.
Memorials of a southern planter,
-
Hundreds of small wooden fishing boats are set afire and dozens are torn to pieces by the blast.
-
Plauen and the Safire attacked the Toal with the puny spells at their command.
The Swordbearer
-
Twelve Fireflies and nine Seafires from HMS Triumph armed with rockets attacked Haeju Airfield, damaging hangars and buildings, but no aircraft were sighted.
-
Indeed Safire should be remembered, not only as a man passionate about language, but as a civil and urbane conservative who, I would like to believe, was as appalled by the current outbreak of right-wing political ergotism as am I.
Archive 2009-09-01
-
Crooked fingers of lightning nearly lit the sky afire, and the thunder crackled like shots from a cannon.
-
a subtone, his brain was afire with keen activity; but unfortunately for the going forward of things, this mental state was divided into so many battalions, led by so many generals, indirectly and indecisively, nowhere.
The Place of Honeymoons
-
Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say.
A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
-
Start to set de cornhouse afire, but my Ma say: 'Please sir, don't burn de cornhouse.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
-
And Salabaetto being come to see her one evening, she greeted him gaily and gamesomely, and fell a kissing and hugging him, and made as if she were so afire for love of him that she was like to die thereof in his arms; and offered to give him two most goodly silver cups that she had, which Salabaetto would not accept, having already had from her (taking one time with another) fully thirty florins of gold, while he had not been able to induce her to touch so much as a groat of his money.
The Decameron, Volume II
-
My favorite Olympic torch lighting ceremony was in Barcelona, 1992, when an archer shot a flaming arrow over the altar to set it afire.
-
set the house afire
-
Whence their deep disks burn at rich midnoon afire with pride,
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
-
Labels: change, climate change, Dahl, ensorcell, global warming, global weirding, safire, thermohaline posted by John McGrath @ 10: 38 AM 0 Comments
Archive 2008-01-01
-
: www. mediafire.com mixtape features music from yeasayer, drake, mark mothersbaugh, usher+nicki minaj, volcano choir, jay electronica, and moreeee! www. facebook.com --- follow for updates! www. myspace.com/emanuelvinson --- friend to hear more of my (original) music, and download my albums (for free)! www. twitter.com/emancan
WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep
-
Oh this is rare sport indeed my friends, I remember Big Bill Safire in his chintziest days when he waged a lonely war to get Billy Carter indicted and throw in jail.
The Chimes at Midnight
-
If he was afire and ashiver, it was wholly with Lilisaire.
The Stars Are Also Fire
-
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.
Gershon Hepner: William Safire
-
The strangers warned Omimo and his army clearly to withdraw, sending lightning over their heads that set distant trees afire.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
-
The clinic was set afire.
-
He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair.
THE BROKEN GOD
-
We are afire with our possibilities, with what we might become.
THE BROKEN GOD
-
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.
-
She cast him a sultry look that set his blood afire.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
-
Every limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire.
-
Irene went down into hourly maximum wind speed 150 km after Safire - Simpson hurricane five-tier system, the intensity level has been reduced to two.
-
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
-
She's been upset out of everything from a balloon to a house afire, and now she's looking for new capsizable craft.
The Perils of Pauline
-
Now, hand me a glass of sweet tea Mr. Simpson and finish telling the story about how you "catched yourself afire" while welding stuff.
Mark L. Walberg: What I've Learned On Antiques Roadshow
