Word: alight
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...sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds the bass...
...those who set fires alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...
...wedges were tried by Harvard with alight gain, and then time was called with the ball on the five yard line...
...just as the entire class was about to start on a sleigh-ride. The police interfered and rescued the sophomores. The class then drove to the place where they were to hold their banquet, but found it surrounded by such a crowd of freshmen that they were afraid to alight. The result of the whole affair is that several men are to be expelled by the Faculty...
...cannot be used. The mattresses and movable appliances slip about, no foothold can be got for jumping or running, and any one, unless he walks carefully, is liable to get a severe fall. There is actually, serious danger of injury; a little slip in leaping, or a failure to alight squarely on the feet from the rings or some appliance, may cause broken bones or a dislocated shoulder...