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...audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE! | 6/11/1919 | See Source »

...light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5,000 IN GREAT SCOUT RALLY | 6/11/1917 | See Source »

...Peters, F. Davis, Jr., M. L. Scull, E. Everett, S. A. Lawton, R. M. Winthrop, G. Allis, N. Bent, A. Whitside, W. R. Peabody, J. K. Whitte more, E. K. Arnold, A. D. Irving, D. D. Miller, W. S. Patten, N. H. White, G. Steinfeld, T. Weill, H. Tinder, A. Cook, Q. R. Sylvester, J. L. Fiske, S. R. Kimball, W. M. Frotter, H. G. A. Haren. E. Cockrall, W. H. Brice, W. F. Hodge, R. K. Fox, C. L. Pierce, L. Eddy, A. P. Teele, T. R. Kimball, A. J. Peters, F. W. Grinnell, F. Webb, F. B. Winslow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Foot Ball. | 10/2/1891 | See Source »

...raised her beautiful, tearful eyes to her companion's face, and involuntarily gave him a tender glance. This was a spark in tinder. Ching seized her hand, and poured out his pentup passion in a resistless torrent. The maiden's breath was quite taken away, at the first plunge in this deluge of sentiment. She listened with ever-increasing alarm, until she found a chance to implore, "No more! oh, no more!" But Ching was fairly beside himself; his love told, he prayed her to assure him of its return. He had held her hand; he threw his arm round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...return to where I started from. It is a crisp January day in a beautiful but too little known city of Canada; the thermometer says ten below zero; the snow is two feet deep and as dry as tinder; the scene is the side of a hill, steeper than any sensible being on a "Yankee" sled would dare to go down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABOGGINNING. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

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