How To Use Bonfire In A Sentence
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She added that the annual Halloween celebrations will see bonfires on the area, only making things worse than they already are.
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In addition to the bonfires and community aspect, there seems to be a tradition of pranking and general misbehavior.
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These fantastic recipes are sure to set your bonfire party off with a bang.
The Sun
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The bonfire will last only as long as supply of cards, flowers and other flammable material is available, so get there early!
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Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
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Roasting pies in the sky on a big-ass bonfire is no way to get ahead in life.
Your Right Hand Thief
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With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
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The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane.
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But then the film attempts to jar the viewer with gory scenes like one around a bonfire wherein roasted marshmallows turn mouths and faces into sticky goo.
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Light the bonfire after the firework display so there is no risk of sparks or heat setting fireworks off.
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She has written an updated foreword to her book about the ugliness that was Bonfire of the Vanities.
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A downpour of rain put out the children's bonfire.
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Bonfire night can fill a child with wonder and we love to see their little faces light up at the sight and sound of the fireworks and the smell and taste of treacle toffee and parkin.
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Weather conditions had been damp, and it seems that local firemen attending the rally "doused" the bonfire - constructed largely of wooden shipping pallets - with "diesel and another accelerant".
The Register
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Buying Scottish" is one way to go about fighting our own corner but another bonfire of the quangos and further streamlining from the SNP would be welcome.
Working 9 to 5
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The amount of water used to put out the twelve minute bonfire proves this assertion.
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This financial bonfire is our Reichtag fire, and our real Fuhrer, Paulson, is requesting emergency dictatorial powers to save the nation from nonexistent, unbridled capitalism.
The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog
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And he recalled with particular gratitude a certain bonfire in Carcassonne.
Backlogs of History
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Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.
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It had been raining, so he used the petrol to help set the bonfire alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day would be a day of history that would be marked with bonfires, church bells ringing and "illuminations" -- or fireworks.
Kenneth C. Davis: Don't Know Much About the Declaration? A Refresher On Our Freedoms
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What I didn't know was then as each one ran out, Matt was chucking them onto the roaring bonfire to be devoured by the flames.
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At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale.
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With this tradition I view this bonfire as act of abomination.
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Another bonfire and a big crowd of supporters awaited the team as they arrived into town.
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With the help of his gun and a bonfire, the hunter fought off two hungry tigers.
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What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visitors can also elect to go on guided tours of the zoo which include slide shows, drinks, rusks and marshmallows around the bonfire.
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That's when the foliage of many trees, shrubs, and vines starts to turn brilliant shades such as port, cherry red, and bonfire orange.
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Saying a prayer, she flung herself into her captors' bonfire.
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The work will involve removing undergrowth, felling scrub and a large bonfire!
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Last summer the culture secretary announced swingeing cuts and closures among the 55 public bodies that fall under the remit of the DCMS – which include the Arts Council, Sport England and the British Library – as part of a so-called "bonfire of the quangos".
Jeremy Hunt's UK Film Council plan criticised by audit office
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A big bonfire and torchlight lit the night sky as the team made their way on to the open trailer.
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And take care with sparklers, fireworks, bangers and bonfires and try not to frighten the vulnerable.
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The night before Bonfire Night was once known as Mischief Night, when children would blacken their faces and play pranks.
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Mr. Coleman goes on to overexaggerate when he says, "More people are going to be killed by this health care legislation than this bonfire.
Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy
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If the bonfire is deemed unsafe the police or fire service will report it to Bradford Council which will arrange for it to be removed.
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Police are warning that pranksters will be punished if they go over the top during the ‘mischief’ period around Halloween and Bonfire Night.
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The bonfires can be seen burning at various times throughout the day and night, with the resulting nauseous effluvia blowing towards the two local schools and several housing estates.
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In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying.
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Next weekend, haul out your sleeping bag, your camp stove and your bug repellent as Oasis, the party in the badlands, takes to the wilds of Drumheller in search of the perfect combo of beat manipulation, bonfires and marshmallows.
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When you taste your rabbit roasted on a bonfire it will make the whole process worth it.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a child I used to love New Year's Eve because the holiday community to which we belonged built a bonfire, sang songs and did comic turns.
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There are often bonfires in the back garden of that house.
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Use bonfire ash as a conditioner for heavy soil; it adds potash to help fruit and flowers.
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Also, on a totally unrelated note, I'd like to point out to the good people of South West London that it is, in fact, the ninth of November and therefore a good few days past bonfire night.
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At the roaring bonfire, skaters can warm up with hot chocolate.
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A downpour of rain put out the children's bonfire.
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Bonfires can be fatal for wildlife such as hedgehogs, which often crawl in them to sleep.
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They piled wood onto the bonfire until the flames roared.
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Then we'd collect withered dry leaves and cipins and light a bonfire around which we'd dance and make weird noises, dressed as witches and really imagining we were flying on broomsticks.
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Firefighters are warning that bonfires can become infernos in the current spell of hot weather.
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The Celts built bonfires and fired animals as sacrificial offerings to their death god.
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During his presidency, Federalists lit bonfires and held balls in his honor, carrying over earlier British practices of honoring the birthday of the sovereign.
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The alliance spokesperson also warns the council that enforcing their anti-bonfire directive could force people into burning refuse in their fireplaces.
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A bonfire blazed inside a small circle of stones.
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The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest.
The Men Who Made England
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Incredibly, while householders can be fined for not sorting out recycled rubbish, there are no bylaws banning garden bonfires.
Times, Sunday Times
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The traditional bonfires burned wood and straw.
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Dad had a bonfire going behind the garage.
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Life is harsh but Liesel soon learns that words and more importantly books are her life and she starts to steal them firstly from the mass bonfires and then from the library of the local Mayor and his wife.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month.
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Incredibly, while householders can be fined for not sorting out recycled rubbish, there are no bylaws banning garden bonfires.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the coalition government came to power last year it promised a spectacular bonfire of the quangos.
Times, Sunday Times
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A fresh breeze swept over the gorze bushes of the moorland and blew into yellow and red streamers the sheet of flame that rose from a huge bonfire which was built in a direct line inland from the Haunted House.
Where Deep Seas Moan
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Sparks were flying out of the bonfire and blowing everywhere.
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Use bonfire ash as a conditioner for heavy soil; it adds potash to help fruit and flowers.
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What do you call a goblin who gets too close to a bonfire?
Stupid jokes and a riddle
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According to legend, the act of riding the horses through the bonfires is meant to "purify" them, much like a traditional baptism.
Saint Anthony's Day (PHOTOS): Baptism By Fire For Horses At Spanish Festival
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Thus Mr. Sale informs me, the old Arab Tribes would gather in liveliest _gaudeamus_, and sing, and kindle bonfires, and wreathe crowns of honour, and solemnly thank the gods that, in their Tribe too, a Poet had shown himself.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank the council for cleaning up the parks so promptly after the Halloween period but I wish they would stop being killjoys in their attitude towards children building bonfires.
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Large bonfires ringed London during the night, and most public buildings were floodlit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aunt Kat vividly described the huge bonfires and colorful rituals she had witnessed at the Beltane festival in Edinburgh as a girl.
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The camp bonfire flamed away all the evening.
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Although the impolite host wound up abruptly canceling the bonfire, there are several lessons one could garner from the barbecue that wasn't.
Jorge A. Rey: Lessons From the Barbecue that Wasn't
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The raid was part of an Manchester Evening News-backed crackdown by the city council on unlicensed firework sales in the run-up to Bonfire Night.
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What started as a small bonfire has grown to the size of a gigantic tip.
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After the celebration folks would take embers from the bonfire to their homes to relight the fires in their own hearths.
Kids? Meet Satan. « Dating Jesus
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The Parisian detachments marching to Lyons left a trail of pillaged and closed churches, and smouldering bonfires of ornaments, vestments, and holy pictures all along their route.
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You may make a handle of it, or you may throw it on the bonfire of scoured rubbish.
Daniel Deronda
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Bonfires are a big part of Hallowe'en and often contain highly combustible materials that can cause respiratory problems and burns.
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I wondered, therefore, if we might see Bonfire Night taking on some of its old pointedness.
The Real Meaning of Bonfire Night
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At one point, they set alight a huge bonfire in the middle of the square.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the display we tootled up the hill to a wacky housing association place called The Quadrangle which was having a bonfire party.
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Celebrations went on late into the night with bonfires blazing around the deputy's home village of Ardfert.
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He dug his thumbs into the eyes, a red bonfire blazing at his chest, and heard an underwater bubbling squeal.
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The proposed reform was part of a Governmentwide drive to sweep away red tape in what was described as a "bonfire of regulations" aimed at stimulating business and economic growth.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Time to throw another quango on the bonfire.
The Sun
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The series of free pet workshops provides children with the opportunity to learn more about how to keep their dogs, cats and small furries safe this winter and bonfire night.
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The only recluse for them is to light bonfires to fend off the bite of cold and urban people are preferring to stay indoors.
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Bonfire Night looks chilly and clear for many.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was one fire larger than the rest; from its dimensions, it might be termed a "bonfire," such as is made by the flattering and flunkeyish peasantry of old-world lands, when they welcome home the squire and the count.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Traditional bonfire treats including black peas, baked potatoes, parkin, toffee apples and treacle toffee were also on offer.
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Yet these are but fireworks while the flames of the England bonfire continue to burn with no one to douse them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mike's face is exactly like the terrier in the old picture, and he sits up and gives his paw just like Bonneau, and I never saw him have any instruction; and as for voice, I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
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Favored by charismatic icons like Greg Noll and Bunker Spreckels, baggies were the flowing emblem of coastal American bohemianism, with its beach bonfires, Volkswagen vans and salt-kissed hair.
Show Some Leg
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We organize bonfires, grilled suppers, trips by britzkas, and cruises along the Vistula.
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The tyre warehouse burned down on bonfire night last year but hundreds of tyres were left buried under rubble on the site.
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Blackened by the bonfires, the protest banners hung askew between the charred palms.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Off to one side, the militia was heaping Up wood for a bonfire to light the proceedings.
A TIME OF WAR
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A bonfire of memorabilia has set the ageing fans of punk rock against the offspring of its creators.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the explosions we all went in for a traditional bonfire night pie and pea supper (with seconds for fat lads) and a few beers and vinos.
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And then I thought of that other noble tower of needless things that stood in the field beyond my garden; the bonfire, the mountain of vanities, that is meant for burning; and how it stood dark and lonely in the meadow, and the birds hopped on its corners and the dew touched and spangled its twigs.
A Miscellany of Men
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A warning has gone out to people thinking of having bonfires in their gardens after a fire went out of control.
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At the far end of the walkway, on the very spot where he had held his bonfires of the vanities, stood a circular wooden platform, heaped with combustibles.
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Hernandez seemed taken aback by the attention his proposed bonfire created.
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There was a bonfire burning in the fire pit and camp chairs set up.
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Bonfire night celebrations in Middleton, near Pickering, may go off with a whimper rather than a bang this year after the village bonfire party was cancelled.
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Here on Barbary Lane, the vernal equinox was heralded by an ancient scarlet azalea that blazed like a bonfire next to the garbage cans.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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The men had built a large bonfire in the center of their camp, having had sweeps throughout the area to make sure that there was no enemy nearby before they turned to the more jolly matters at hand.
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Families are invited to march to the beat of the drums from Rafters Landing to a bonfire celebration in Louise McKinney Park.
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The metal frames of the chairs were all that was left in the ashes of the bonfire.
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There were similar protests across the world, including Berlin, where bonfires were lit on the streets and barricades erected to fend off police.
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Fireworks, parkin, sparklers, bonfires - we have one man to thank for the fun.
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Save the prunings for a welcome bonfire and enjoy the end of the day with chestnuts in embers and the last of the season's potatoes.
Gardening jobs for November
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Large bonfires ringed London during the night, and most public buildings were floodlit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He once accidentally burnt a cub alive in his garden bonfire; the experience traumatised him and finds its way into the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having taken this lesson to heart, I paid attention to the emergence of the many fires in my story -- the small bonfires Little Servant ignites around the Entertainment Palace to keep himself warm, the flames in the fireplaces in the Romanov palaces that rather than warm Darya, my protagonist, make her shiver.
Dora Levy Mossanen: Fires, Opals and the Romanovs
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Campaigners lit scores of bonfires in ceremonies to mark the anniversary.
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Those watching joined hands and danced round the bonfire amid an air of frenzied excitement.
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Music itself; and, piling all the upholsteries and ingenuities that other human art could do, had lighted them into a bonfire to illuminate an hour's flirtation of Singedelomme, Mahogany, and these improper persons!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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He will later this year be seen in a car-chase caper called V for Vendetta, a British ‘bonfire night’ action thriller by the makers of The Matrix.
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In addition to these fires, the streets were lined with lanterns, and people carried cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another.
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On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire.
Times, Sunday Times
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With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
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With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
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It's not just about the fact that if we clearly cannot agree on what feminism is, how can we even go about agreeing on what post-feminism is, but that the very term negates both the activism and identity of those who regard feminism as a work in progress, not just something to be studied in the history books with the requisite buzzphrase "bra burning," sans explanation about its origins in a single protest at the 1968 Miss America Pageant Freedom Trash Can bonfire.
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Sparks were flying out of the bonfire and blowing everywhere.
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The fact that tricolours are burned at bonfires during the summer in the North is the source of much disgruntlement among tricolour lovers of the Republic.
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At the moment the only exceptions were when the fair was in town to allow the workers to stay overnight and on Bonfire Night.
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In 1755, some seventy years after the last dodo's death, the director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford decided that the institution's stuffed dodo was becoming unpleasantly musty and ordered it be tossed into a bonfire." [p. 564] This was the last specimen left in existence.
BOOK REVIEW FROM THE EDGE OF THE PLANET: Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING
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Of course, you could just make a bonfire with all the reports into housing in the past decade to keep warm.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the 26th of Auguft, about twilight, a fmall bonfire was kindled in King-ftreet, Bofton, and fur - rounded only by a few boys and children; but when the fireward endeavoured to extinguilh it, he was whifpered, by an unknown perfon, to defiil; which he not re - garding, received a blow on his
A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775
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Its most popular Midsummer Day finds many Finns lighting bonfires and drinking enthusiastically at their country homes. Finland is also home to the world's longest-running rock festival, Ruisrock.
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Bonfires are a general nuisance and serious problem for anyone with a respiratory condition such as asthma or emphysema.
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With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
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The bonfire blazed away for hours.
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Outside the building people continue their vigil, huddling around bonfires.
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The burning of life-sized effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires is a relatively new custom.
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I was also familiar with bonfires and trash fires, and with the intense heat which they produced.
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Bonfires blazed everywhere on Sunday evening welcoming the triumphant players back with the cup.
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The talks were closely monitored via mobile phone, and a bonfire of tyres and bobbins of rayon was kept burning.
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It was under grass cuttings in the ashes of a bonfire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asked to dispose of it, he quietly burnt it on a bonfire in his back garden in Cheshire, the court heard.
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The winds will be important because of the bonfires and fireworks putting smoke into the air.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bonfire flares beside the handsome, Tudor-style Redstone Inn, the town's big hotel and restaurant.
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Warnings have also been issued in relation to fire hazards caused by Hallowe'en bonfires.
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On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire.
Times, Sunday Times
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So far most of the country has refrained from going up like a bonfire (probably due to the lack of available tinder - everything burned last year) although there have been a few minor fires near where I'm living (I'm in a relatively new subdivision, about five to ten years old, and there's still a lot of areas which are "scheduled for development" - or in other words, slightly adulterated bushland).
Making Light: Like an ice storm, only with more volume
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It marks the longest day of the year and is celebrated with bonfires along the country's lakes, rivers, and fjords (narrow inlets of the sea, bordered by steep cliffs).
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But this is not your local village bonfire night outfit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bonfire of burning bras has finally died down and we should admit effeminacy is killing the arts.
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Soon they were skirting along the coast towards Louisburgh as bonfires blazed along the road.
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Potentially dangerous bonfires will also be removed in the run-up to November 5.
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They have also said that they want to have a big bonfire on fireworks night.
Times, Sunday Times
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We worked dawn to dusk piling up a huge bonfire that would still be smouldering the next weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, they are known as St. Martin's fires, and the children call lighting a bonfire "warming the good St. Martin.
Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium
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The bonfire - made using six semi-trailer truckloads of wood - will burn throughout the night, which culminates in a spectacular fireworks display at around 8 pm.
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At one point, they set alight a huge bonfire in the middle of the square.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than 2,000 people are expected to attend, craning their necks for the massive bonfire and display ‘worth a few grand’.
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Live fireworks have been thrown into phone boxes, postboxes and even into a residential letterbox vandals in the run up to bonfire night
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Flowers and wooden curios were thrown onto bonfires as their owners watched in disbelief.
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There should have been shouting and huge double-edged swords slicing the air, and giant bonfires with wild, roaring flames.
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The Bosnian has not scored since Bonfire night and the form of Mario Balotelli – absent with an ankle injury for the second match in a row – is likely to become increasingly important to Mancini as the title race intensifies.
Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard Williams
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They have also said that they want to have a big bonfire on fireworks night.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following year, the local middle classes organised the new Bonfire Societies and controlled popular effervescence became a tourist attraction.
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Mr. Sale informs me, the old Arab Tribes would gather in liveliest _gaudeamus, _ and sing, and kindle bonfires, and wreathe crowns of honour, and solemnly thank the gods that, in their
Past and Present
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Bonfire Night looks chilly and clear for many.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, they are known as St. Martin's fires, and the children call lighting a bonfire "warming the good St. Martin.
Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium
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I could hear fireworks, and smell the smoke from bonfires, and I fell asleep.
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Huge bonfires on the far side of the battlefield threw a pall of black smoke over the whole nightmarish vista.
TREASON KEEP
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Of course, the smoke did not affect their own houses because the bonfire was at the bottom of their gardens.
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Take care around the traditional bonfires as even a stray spark shooting from damp or knotted wood can ignite materials in multicoloured costumes.
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Each morning a young mother and son swept the road, sorted valuable litter into bags and made small bonfires of rubbish at intervals.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Live music, funfairs and fire-eaters are among the attractions being lined up to celebrate Bonfire Night across the region tomorrow.
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They stood it upright with the help of some remnant pieces of wood, took a stick from the bonfire and lit the fuse before standing back and covering their ears.
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We worked dawn to dusk piling up a huge bonfire that would still be smouldering the next weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four days after bonfire night I took part, with thousands of people all round the country, in another commemoration - Remembrance Sunday.
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Clouds came pouring over the housetop as if there were a bonfire at the back.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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An earthy casserole of pumpkin and courgette, frilly girolle mushrooms, chestnuts and pillowy clouds of curd was so delightfully autumnal that it seemed entirely fitting when the candle flame ignited my napkin, producing a small bonfire on the table.
Evening Standard - Home
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He warned members of the public not to build bonfires on tarmacadam or asphalt surfaces and to avoid using light materials such as paper and cardboard as fuel because they may fly about while burning.
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The embers from the dying bonfires still burned, casting ghostly shadows over the ground.
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This alliance barely outlasted the bonfires lit to celebrate the proclamation of the Crown Colony of Victoria on 1 July 1851, for later that month the colony was convulsed by the discovery of gold.
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We ask people to be aware of the litter laws and not dump any type of rubbish for the bonfires on the greens.
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The talks were closely monitored via mobile phone, and a bonfire of tyres and bobbins of rayon was kept burning.
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And he beckoned imperiously to a neighbouring group of men, -- "bloods" -- always ready to follow him in a "rag," and heroes together with him of a couple of famous bonfires, in Falloden's first year.
Lady Connie
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If insects, worms and snails could scream, would you still light that bonfire?
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A Humberside Fire Service appliance was attending an out-of-control bonfire and was on Brigg Road with its blue lights and sirens on.
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There's a little woodsmoke on the air, from the chimneys of the cottages across the valley, different from autumn bonfire smoke and infinitely sweeter.
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Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions.
The Scarlet Letter
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Overlooking the Spanish Inquisition, and a bonfire of Indian idols and codices, is a surrealist figure of a grotesque hand-with-eyes, symbolizing an empty head, a brain that doesn't think, an intelligence without control, an invasion.
Did You Know? The centenary of the birth of artist Juan O'Gorman
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The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest.
The Men Who Made England
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The system can be speeded up by cutting out the middleman and burning the wood on a bonfire.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stayed out of sight until the twilight took the last of the day and the mosquito-like buzz of ghostly motorbikes continued their dance, primally circling two newly lit crackling bonfires in the center of the field.
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Dad used to make a big deal about getting the fireworks, while Chris and I made a bonfire.
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At one point, they set alight a huge bonfire in the middle of the square.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love Bonfire Night because it’s an excuse to look shocking (windswept is never a good look), and whether you are celebrating the fact that Guy Fawkes was caught or just the fact that he made the attempt at all, everyone is in a relaxed mood and gets together to have a good time then just hang out and spend the night together.
…the Tin Foil Lady « Sven’s guide to…
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Across in Biggar, the bonfire celebrations date back to the pagan times when fire was worshipped.
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But it must also go up to acknowledge that, at that very moment, bonfires of celebration are being lit from one end of the land to the other.