How To Use Burned In A Sentence

This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
Their bodies were then doused with petrol and burned in a garden. The Sun
His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.
The satellite re-entered the atmosphere and burned up.
Coal fell out of the fire, and burned the carpet.

All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York. Ulysses
The "Very Funny" cable network burned off the whopping nine-episode season of its sly charmer about Chicago sportswriter PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her pals on Sundays opposite such sky-high-profile cable competition as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Mad Men — whose costar Joel Murray, aka rehabbed alky Freddy Rumsen, guested on Boys as the owner who sold the gang's hangout, Crowley's, to Brando (Reid Scott) in the season finale. Cheers & Jeers: My Boys to Men?
He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile. Forbes.com: News
The city crumbled and burned to brands and ashes.
We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat. Cramer - French Word-A-Day
All over his body, he saw a thin, glowing mesh that burned brighter and brighter by the second, burning and charring his flesh.
The four persons who were beaten and burned not only were homeless, but were reported by police to be drug addicts.
And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe, and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde: she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise, triumphing and reioysinge, getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente, and ther kissinge and embrasinge the deade body, is burned together with her housebande. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day. Conservation Reader
Now 3 babies and 7 years later my thyroid is nearly burned out and I take a thyroid supplement every morning. » No Time to Be Sick Strocel.com
The Inspector, who was also at the meeting, urged anyone finding drugs paraphernalia, including burned tin foil and syringes, to contact the police straightaway.
His flat-tax fire, which burned hot for months, ultimately flickered out along with his popularity.
The air filled with the strong scent of herbs being burned to discourage elemental spirits.
Émile Zola admired their fine clear skin, like that of girls of the north of France, he thought, in contrast to the peaches from the Midi which were yellow and sunburned like the girls of that region.
The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague - the city slums inhabited by the poor.
Life is a candle . If burned out , there will not chance for you to start again . Let's value life.
Some recent research into the causes of malignant melanoma in adults suggests that getting badly sunburned as a child might have something to do with it.
When piper played cheerly, and crusie burned bright, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
Ambition burned within her.
Moscow, and when they caught sight of its burned ruins no one swore to be avenged on the French, but they thought about their next pay, their next quarters, of Matreshka the vivandiere, and like matters. War and Peace
I'm sad about my toys getting burned in the fire.
In fall it burned with all the colors of maple and Autumn Joy sedum. JADE ISLAND
Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
For some reason best known to whoever it was, a lifebuoy on Abbeyside strand was taken from its berthing and shamelessly burned.
Noyon — caused Michael Servetus to be burned at Geneva by a slow fire with green fagots. A Philosophical Dictionary
The switchgrass will be burned with coal to produce electricity.
With the range of firearms commonly used, from long-barreled .22 rimfire to snubby .44 magnum a friend calls his the "flare gun", you get quite a range of outcomes in terms of unburned powder distribution. Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
He showed us another grown the traditional way, manured by cattle and burned off by fire. Kook
I've burned one of the clogs, the animals are dead but the one goose mopes by the stagnant mare. WHITE LIES
The material used to form the pattern should be something which can be melted, volatilized, or burned off, such as wax or plastic.
Biodiesel reduces emissions of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, sulfates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and particulates.
Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
A boy seriously burned in a fire that killed his older brother eight years ago has saved his younger brother and sister from another blaze at their Bradford home.
And among other things the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the balconies till they were some of them burned and fell down.
She burned the image of a tiger into the wood panel.
The gauze mask helped protect her burned face until she could receive treatment in hospital.
It may very well build my character for my house to be burned down, my wife to be raped, and one of my children to die from tetanus from a knife wound. An Argument for Home-Schooling
I took a gulp of it and burned my tongue in the process.
Dante burned against her, his hard, lean body hot as sunbaked desert sand. Etched in Bone
Now, the coals of the campfire had burned low and, in the big skillet, rabbit legs and thick bacon rashers spluttered.
All cut the same number of calories from food intake and also burned up an equal amount. The Sun
For travelers who've been harmed, or just burned, beyond the reach of American courts, suing go-betweens like travel agents and tour operators is often the only remedy.
My blood boiled and burned like acid fire within me but I forced my will to ignore it.
Demonstrators burned tyres and hurled stones at passing police cars.
After four years of work, a fire that had burned for 130 years was finally extinguished. Christianity Today
They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons, and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics . . . it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. A Renegade History of the United States
A Mexican force soon expelled him, and his rangers burned the town of as they left.
She rose from humble origins to become a military heroine by the age of 19, although she was ultimately captured and burned at the stake for heresy.
Frankincense, which was burned in the shrines of numerous deities, represented divinity.
During Burns's own lifetime, books and poems were burned in Edinburgh's High street by the common hangmen.
My dad's been wanting me to move out ever since the heat lamp for my pet mog almost burned the house down.
But if the contusion appear to be at the bone, if it be still recent, and the bone has not yet become necrosed, if it be very small, it is to be burned as has been described; but if the rising along the bone be oblong, several eschars are to be burned over it. On The Articulations
After the candles burned for several minutes, I handed Xun an incensor (incense burner), filled with smoldering charcoal, which he placed on the floor in front of the candles. Temezcal y Xun - the sweatlodge
To expand the fireguard, a 2 km wide stretch of forest was burned south into Kootenay National Park.
Nobody wanted to face the three-hour flight back to Kuwait with packages undelivered — it made the flight longer and burned fuel like crazy; and to face the crew that had worked like dogs to ready the aircraft, load the bombs, and paint love notes to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar on the ordnance was a full-bore bummer. The Kabul-ki Dance
Burned in recent years by huge unsold inventories of movie merchandise and fearful of the slowing economy, everyone from toymakers and retailers to moviemakers has cut back.
My hands burned with the warm, viscid crimson of my father's blood and I found myself morbidly wondering if I would feel such erotic satisfaction each time I took a life.
John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted.
Jean-Baptiste Canelle, for that was his name, sat behind a table covered with moldy bread crusts, half burned candles, and beer-stains.
He poked the partially burned wood a few times with a stick and flames rose and crackled as they burned brighter.
It is bursting with full, ripe blackcurrant, thick plum and burned coffee touches too, all wrapped up in a sturdy blanket of prominent tannins.
We carted all the rubbish to the bottom of the garden and burned it.
The plane was apparently torn apart before it burned, killing the pilot and copilot.
It's an early emission-control device that injected pulses of fresh air into the catalytic converter to help burn up any unburned fuel that managed to get that far.
She quickly removed her sweater, ignoring the pain that burned into her scar as the material raced across it.
Bio-diesel fuelled engines, like their regular fuel counterparts, still emit carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and particulate matter.
There was a sharp, hot, pain in his palm and Eden jumped back and blankly realized that he'd held the pan's handle wrong and burned himself.
They danced until it was unbearably hot and her throat burned.
We could have gone into another room and returned to find this one burned to a crisp. Times, Sunday Times
A badly sunburned face or back is extremely painful.
In the pure science section is the data surrounding the two chemicals ethyl mercaptan and butyl sereno-mercaptan which smell of a combination of rotting cabbage, garlic, onions, burned toast and sewers.
But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
That's why they burned down their straw shelters and left no trace of their dwellings, only their sarcophagi and burial mounds.
The important notes of this classic dish should be caramelised apple and crumbly pasty, but instead, there was an unpleasant sharpness, which came from either burned sugar, or apples left in lemon juice too long, or both.
His temples burned and his sores itched, like a thousand worms underneath his skin, crawling and burrowing deeper, ever deeper inside him.
The killer then sped off on the pillion seat of a motorbike and, with his accomplice, drove to a quiet neighbourhood and burned the bike in an obviously pre-identified secluded location.
We burned you up (though you mentioned the River); the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra. Not from the self but from the Other
In the typical Western diet, all the energy in protein is burned up daily.
A Christmas window display in the shop of Messrs Tipping and Lee, coal merchants, Brook Street, Ilkley, was burned out through the fusing of an electric fairy light which formed part of the decorations.
It was the first time she had ever kissed me and, as I drove through the changing light, her kiss burned like a brand on my cheek.
The animals burned to death in the barn.
His hand tingled, almost burned, where he held his sword, and the moment their lips made contact there was suddenly an excess amount of blinding bright light.
The cliff face across the bay burned orange. Times, Sunday Times
Upon arriving in Copenhagen, I was burned out from backpacking and looking forward to a good nap.
Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines. Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting
The satellite burned up on re-entry.
The service module, and the orbital module are burned in the Earth's atmosphere, whilst the re-entry module uses its heat shield to make a safe return.
In the typical Western diet, all the energy in protein is burned up daily.
He stared at the spider's web, and this afterimage of the Elder Eddas burned inside him: Matter is memory. THE BROKEN GOD
He burned with hate for everyone and everything.
Burned-out hulks of several trailer houses were nearby.
Independent monitors have asked the election commission to annul the results in districts where armed gangs shot at voters, snatched and burned ballots, and blocked access to the polls with vehicles and felled trees.
In the first, because of the large sums obliged to be levied off them, as compensation to those whose cattle were maliciously houghed, or whose houses were burned; and in the latter, because of the great boon (the grant to improve the river) bestowed on Ireland by that government of which Lord Normanby was a prominent member. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
She took a pipkin from the hearth, where a small fire burned, though it was summer weather, as Dickie could see by the green tree-tops that swayed and moved outside in the sun, poured some gruel out of it into a silver basin. Harding's Luck
Not surprisingly, last Friday's Minneapolis City Council meeting was dominated by the smoking ban ordinance, which burned up nearly two hours of debate.
To light their homes, early Americans relied on tallow candles, floating tapers that burned assorted greases, and lamps that burned fuels such as lard and turpentine.
Foliar concentrations of N, P, K and Mg in red maple and oak seedlings were significantly greater on the burned site than on the unburned site immediately following the fire.
While methane generally serves as a fuel and is often simply burned off at a refinery, the other light gases can serve as the starting materials for plastics and polymers or as feedstock for a number of other petrochemicals.
The name comes from the Greek words apo (from) and fyllo (leaf) because apophyllite exfoliates (spreads or extends as if opening out leaves) when burned.
Hydrophobicity has been recorded in dry, unburned soils but may be intensified by fire.
All cut the same number of calories from food intake and also burned up an equal amount. The Sun
Mr. Schleck, a sideburned 25-year-old, hardly sounds shy when assessing his chances. With Armstrong Quiet, Schleck Talks Big
Photos released by the Mexican navy showed several sunburned fishermen in T-shirts and Bermudas waiting to get on a bus. Mexico may call off rescue in boat capsizing
Lyra is wonderful as an independent prospector who learns from being burned; while intriguingly he does not regrets his actions but is burned more so as his obsidian and her amethyst is a fiery PSI heart and soul matching . Obsidian Prey-Jayne Castle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
His face is covered with scar tissue where he was badly burned.
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
Other demonstrators climbed up the buildings outside the consulate and burned Japanese flags.
My brow burned, and I sucked a deep breath, sending the oxygen to my muscles.
Here in Chicago I tend to cover breaking crime stories where the action is intense - grieving victims, burned-out buildings, angry neighbors.
Witches used to be burned at the stake.
The wood caught, but it burned feebly.
Edward has the rather unenvied distinction of being the last of the religious martyrs in England to be burned at the stake.
Meeting the new specifications required a number of technical changes in engine design, primarily in how diesel fuel is burned in the cylinder.
He had one foot on the floor of the vessel, and a hole had been burned through his chest.
The rest is burned in heaps on the ground and never smoked at all.
A fire burned merrily in the hole, crackling brightly with orange and yellow flames.
When we convert the sugars into alcohol by fermentation, we release carbon dioxide and produce a flammable fuel that can be burned in an engine.
The sun burned on her back and on the straw hat she had put on, and a smear of dirt colored one of her cheeks.
He burned his visiting-cards, ornamented with the family crest and his name "Chevalier Lange d'Ardennes" -- and had others printed, simply Monsieur De Camors — Complete
I like cricket, I like sitting on the boundary with a cold beer, nattering with my friends, half an eye on the game, getting burned because I forgot the sun cream.
While the Kyrgyz cities of Osh and Jalalabad burned, sending almost 100, 000 ethnic Uzbeks fleeing into Uzbekistan, Moscow dithered and then sent a few planeloads of humanitarian aid.
The coal screening device causes coal with different granularity to be arranged and burned on a fire grate in a layer mode according to the favorable burning condition.
You play the role of Aronos Schuler, once a young Bishop in Moscow and the descendant of a 12th century German monk, now a burned-out loner who doesn't even believe in a god any more.
The smoke from their cigars burned the inside of her nose as she quickly walked past them.
The old lamps burned in groups of nine or ten, whilst the new were in pairs and instead of burning in the air the carbon was in a chamber in which there was a partial vacuum.
One and a half cords of wood burned down to a twenty-four foot path of coals glowing at a brisk 1,000 degrees when Willey first stepped on it.
The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’
Improbably, the result was worth it: The titivated Jumbo was so lifelike that he looked ready to charge at spectators—and, presumably, he still would, had his artificial hide not caught fire and burned him to a crisp in 1972. Wildlife Without Life
The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it.
The osteria was a deep vault, almost like a hollow in the ruins; within, a lamp burned before the image of the Madonna; a large fire flamed on the hearth, for here they roasted, cooked and prepared the dishes for the guests. The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales.
With dumps in the area full, locals have burned or buried rubbish in the surrounding fields. Times, Sunday Times
If I hadn't wakened and it had got up to the roof the whole house could have been burned.
The thick heavy grey smoke lingered among the branches and prevented the flowers and buds from being burned by frost.
The single burned match has a curiously forlorn feeling.
Soon everything was on fire and she watched helplessly as her skin blistered and burned.
Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin.
When hot conjee once has burned them, children blow upon the cold. ' Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
The palm of the glove contained a healing incantation burned in gold.
Sir Walter Scott gave an account of an unidentified friend who had been in Paris and discovered a ‘tall, thin, raw-boned, grim-looking old man’ with a sunburned and heavily freckled face.
The sight of such violence burned into her soul.
The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb. Tragedy and Comedy of Life
The shopping centre was burned down, riot police were brought in and about 30 people were injured in clashes.
Biology, as Burned Man sometimes remarked, was both bewildering and immoderate. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Her eyes were wide open and crystal clear, but instead of the warmth of lucidity, they burned with the ice of expressionlessness.
The fame difficulty accounts for the large proportion of nitre required to deflagrate with it completely; a quantity required, not becaufe there is much combuf - tible matter to be burned, but becaufe a long conti - nued and elevated heat is neceiliiry; by which means much of the nitre is decompofed, and its vital air flies off, without having been employed in the combullion, as appears by the two thirds of the elaftic produft, which will fupport the flame of a candle. The first principles of chemistry
He said a resident of one of the houses that burned often disposed of cigarettes in potted plant containers on his deck. Cigarette started fire that burned five Manassas homes, officials say
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11: 56 a.m. JERUSALEM - Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. Fore, right!
I admit that the term branding suggests something other than what happened, my first image was of some sort of cross shaped device that burned the image into the skin. Freshwater: The police report - The Panda's Thumb
It may not be too great a flight of imagination to conceive our noble 'revenant' not forgetful of the great troubles of his own day, and anxious to know how often London had been burned down since his time, and how often the plague had carried off its thousands. Lectures and Essays
This Dobson critter is a religious determinist, specifically, a variant of a Calvinist predestinarian (John Calvin, 16th Century Protestant theologian; a Protestant when being a Protestant could get you burned at the stake). Think Progress » James Dobson to start new nonprofit and radio show, giving him ‘greater leeway to hold forth on politics.’
The pizza base (handmade with organic flour) was evidently homespun, with its biscuity, nicely burned crust.
News at Eleven: "The fire actually saved it, as the papyrus would have been rotted away by damp if not burned," Greek papyrologist expert George Karamanolis said. Archive 2006-06-01
The skin on the side of his face burned suddenly and the brunette slapped a hand to his cheek, expecting it to come into contact with a mosquito or a gnat.
Today the wait is over, Spanish Harlem's burned-out buildings are gold mines…
To each his own, but the guys at Dynamite seem to be doing nothing more than "aping" every trend that either Marvel or DC has already burned through - many times over - and that is just not the way to make it long term in this business. "Fighting Mad" over Fighting American!
In 1390, on Robert II's death, Buchan and his caterans burned Forres, and then Elgin burgh and cathedral, in reprisals for Moray's actions.
This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant, and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the awful deeds of that _awful creed_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
There are pictures of burned and deformed babies and articles explaining the injustices our country has been perpetrating.
Yet a small group of CEOs and financiers managed to save the family silver before the house burned to the ground.
It is difficult to imagine we are the same people who used to flock to see the guilty or the innocent burned alive, hanged, drawn and quartered, drowned or garroted.
Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria.
I burned my hand on the oven door.
If they are burned they can not regenerate, so fire is the greatest ally of the Troll fighter.
We have scavenged the burned-out theater next door for a filigreed floor-to-ceiling round mirror and a tattered poster of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet.
Yet a small group of CEOs and financiers managed to save the family silver before the house burned to the ground.
A warm smile lifted the corners of her mouth and her golden eyes burned of motherly warmth.
Writers, artists and other kinds of freelancers get burned by this, one way or the other, no matter what they do.
Once inside, the Greek soldiers poured out of the horse, sacked Troy, and burned it to the ground, carrying off plenty of wealth and numerous Trojan women in the process.
I returned to Lahore five weeks later, shell-shocked, hungry for company, but hardened, sunburned, and at least now aware of the scale of the problem. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about his life and his first collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.
She practically burned her hands since the pot holders had been worn thin and there was no room on the counter to put it down.
The young author burned energy as if he never heard of resting.
A muscular, taciturn man with callused hands and a sunburned face, Hart normally pounds rock for oil or water. Jeff Hart, Chile Mine Driller From Denver, Becomes Rescue Hero
What strange power burned in those cold gray eyes that sneered at her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Candles burned every where to enlighten the room.
Cox said the SUV "sheered" the gas line, which caused the fire that burned the car and spread to the home. Woman charged after SUV hits home
Little "kickshaws" for Polly lay on the table before him, and a small fire burned in the grate, with a huge kettle thereon. Philosopher Jack
He who plays with fire gets burned.
Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round! Lord Kilgobbin
The intense flash of heat had, hi the ME's words, 'burned through the orb, the external and internal recti, the optic nerve, the lesser wing, the sphenoid'. The White Ninja
Four recipes, two for cookies and two for gingerbread, call for the use of “pearlash,” a refined version of potash, which was made by soaking the ash produced when plant materials are burned, draining off the liquid, and drying it down to concentrate the substances dissolved in it. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The pyrite has a small amount of arsenopyrite in it, and when this is burned arsenious oxide is formed as An Elementary Study of Chemistry
The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
The unburned gasoline or carbon monoxide come out the tail pipe.
For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up.
“Dead-burned dolomite” is a special form of dolomitic lime used in refractories. Lime
It was simply smouldering, the flames long burned out leaving nothing but some charcoal what was once wood.
He burned a narcotics detective.
He was in no mood for his own work and by eleven he wandered unconsoled and purposeless towards the blackened ruins of the burned-out shed. Cargo of Eagles
It was filled with a strongly spiced red wine; he drank directly from the spout, until he choked and tears burned his eyes. HERE BE DRAGONS
Mr. Chan holds a will granting Nina's entire estate to him. burned for good luck but not as a testamentary instrument - after amending earlier pleadings that Nina lacked capacity and Mr. Chan used Telegraph, the flamboyant Nina (dubbed in Hong Kong as "Little Sweetie" after a Japanese cartoon character because she favoured pigtails, colorful micro-miniskirts, bobbysocks and white PVC macs), had resisted attempts to have her late husband declared dead. Toronto Estate Law Blog
He bent his head and seared her lips with a kiss that burned to her core.
At least, I assume it was supposed to be amusing, because I glanced once at it, and burned the foul thing as soon as decency allowed.
When Lao-tse wrote that 'the sage is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs,' he provided an epigraph for the cruel frivolities of John Hawkes's and John Barth's latest fiction, in which the hapless characters are raped, carved up, burned with cigarettes, bestialized. Straw Dogs
The fumes of alcohol rising from it burned his nose.

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