Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then a dazzling blaze! Now darting quicker...
...vine-leaf is twined o'er your temples 'neath the blaze of the pine-tree bough...
ONCE a careless man went to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he thought was a keg of black sand. He sat near it drinking wine until the candle burned low. Nearer and nearer it got to the black sand; nearer and nearer, until the blaze reached the black sand; and it was sand, - nothing happened...
...parabolic comet's nucleus blaze...
...present state of things is a marked change from what it was two years ago. Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest light in many of the buildings is only a glimmer, that hardly serves to make the darkness visible...