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conflagration
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Definition:a very destructive fire
image: by David Scott, The FIre of London
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“Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children’s alone,” and she took wing and went off to see about it—which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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Anna came in with hanging head, playing with the tassels of her hood. Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. On seeing her husband, Anna raised her head and smiled, as though she had just waked up.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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‘Yes that’s all the good that such a brute as you can get from them!’ cried Catherine, sucking her damaged lip, and watching the conflagration with indignant eyes.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Michael Portillo: [Chicago] shrugged off a major conflagration and architecturally reached for the sky; its expansion upwards and outwards continues apace.
BBC. Great American Railroad Journeys: Milwaukee to Chicago (2017)
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when Colonel Aureliano Buendía invited him to start a mortal conflagration that would wipe out all vestiges of a regine of corruption and scandal backed by the foreign invader, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez could not hold back a shudder of compassion.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.262 (1970)
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