Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ambition may emit a meteor blaze...
...there is nothing to do but to fold our hands complacently, and pray Heaven to thicken the sod on Jarvis, so that it may be used some time. Meanwhile let us hope the Athletic Association will find some means to keep in a flicker - we don't say a blaze - the interest that should attend all manly and healthy sports...
...vacation as the "law allowed and the court awarded," and not to find him here was indeed a sad disappointment. There was no help for it, however, so down I went on my knees, and raked and poked and worked away until at last there was a bright blaze; and just at that moment, lo and behold, in walked my chum...
...glimmer up the road, indistinguishable at first from that of a star in the horizon; now scintillating, now increasing. A faint hum ! a louder and a louder whir! A blaze of light, a screech, a stop, and I am conscious that the express is there, and has pulled up but for a moment. Blinded by the glare, still half in dreamland and wholly confused, I spring upon the train The wheels once more revolve, and I turn to go in, - no door! I rub my eyes, and discover, but too late, that I am between the tender and the baggage...
...coal-closet. I came back here only to find the fire out, and while I was trying to shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose you fill the scuttle...