After the great conflagration of 1812 the object must have been to build, and to do so quickly.
The conflagration lighted up the sea for many miles around, and threw its grim and ominous glare to the very mouth of the Strait.
Vandal march of conflagration and pillage, and I found her people terribly demoralized.
During eight days and nights, the conflagration spread above a league in front, from the harbor to the Propontis, over the thickest and most populous regions of the city.
The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil.
This portrait was unfortunately consumed in the second conflagration of the monastery in 1686.
There was an hour or two when all attempts at checking the conflagration seemed really hopeless, and even the boldest and the most persevering scarcely knew which way to turn, to be useful.
It was now drawing towards morning, and the conflagration was at its height, having already laid waste a nucleus of blocks, and it was extending by many lines, in every possible direction.
The screams of the dinosaurs were louder, as if the great beasts were excited by the conflagration in the city of the Ogrum.
It looked like a gigantic conflagration on the horizon.
Whatever may have been his motives, he has cast a firebrand into this country, and been the primary cause of a conflagration which time and great prudence and moderation alone can quench.
The loss of her trousseau in the conflagration stupefied the coquette.
Quiet these commotions by mildness, lest a conflagration should arise and burn all Germany.
Thus, says an historian, as from a single spark often proceeds the conflagration of a whole forest, so from this small beginning a great division arose in the Church.
Men of affairs, who had during the preceding forty-eight hours in many cases seen great fortunes irresistibly slipping from their grasp, contemplated a European conflagration with incredible equanimity.
Far worse things, it is declared, are conceivable than the conflagration which Europe for years has half dreaded and half prepared for.
It seemed to reflect a vast conflagration or a sky rayed by lightning, but the atmosphere was calm, Thebes was not burning, and the unchanging azure spread over the red stream, marked here and there by the white bellies of dead fishes.
To overthrow the pylons built of fragments of mountains, the earth itself would have had to quake; even a conflagration could only have licked with its fiery tongues those indestructible blocks.
He was to be the bearer of the news of the disaster to his sovereign, whose only answer was the conflagration of his capital.
He ordered lists to be made of all the citizens whom the conflagration had deprived of the means of subsistence, opened houses of refuge for them, and supplied them with food.
They were lighted on their march by the baleful conflagration which was consuming the centre of their commerce, the sanctuary of their religion, the cradle of their empire!
The next morning, the 17th of September, Napoleon cast his first look towards Moscow, hoping to see that the conflagrationhad subsided.
That very night it was set on fire, and the conflagration continued until the whole place, outside the Kremlin, was practically a heap of bricks and ashes.
Nor was there time, for their precipitancy had kindled a conflagration before either England or any other Power had any chance of extinguishing the blaze.
The glare fell upon the sward of the forest, and towards the rear upon a sheet of water, which showed the conflagration to have been kindled on the bank of some river.
In the same inroad, the family of David Ramsay had once more been assailed, and all that was spared from the first conflagration was destroyed in the second.
The light of the conflagration had soon died away, and our wanderers pursued their solitary road in darkness, ignorant of the country through which they passed, and uncertain of the point to which they tended.
Then Thekla, Atlantis, and I mounted to an upper room, and watched the smoke rising from the pile, until the glare of the conflagration burst through it, and stained with a faint red the pure daylight.
The students kindled this conflagration in the market-place entirely on their own responsibility.
And he proceeded to describe to us the conflagration and the sayings of the students with as much exultation as if it had been a victory over Tetzel and the indulgence-mongers themselves.
All night the bombketches threw in shells, while the conflagration continued.
So whilst rank and file caroused, the small beginnings of the great conflagration were neglected and men were powerless to cope with the later developments, though some worked like Trojans.
He delayed in hastening needed reinforcements to the besieged garrison in the Kremlin of Moscow, counting those that reached it during the conflagration sufficient.
Nero, entered it with her army, slaughtered the inhabitants, and most probably burnt it, as the charred remains of a great conflagration have been frequently found in making deep excavations.
Neapolitan troops received commands to march through Romagna; in short, a general conflagration seemed about to break forth.
In the midst of this activity, in June 1304, a conflagration laid a great part of the city in ashes, during a violent feud between the populace and the nobility.
The former is a picture of the passions all on fire--the latter is the real conflagration pouring out a stream of impassioned words that burn like liquid flames bursting from a volcano.
He boldly sanctioned and fearlessly affixed his name to the great certificate of our national birth and rejoiced in freedom illumined by the conflagration of his own Elysian Morrisania.
Chieftain," said the legate in an awed whisper, "is thisconflagration accident or design?
It's easy enough setting the heather on fire in dry weather, but he is a wise prophet who tells where the conflagration ends.
My brothers, when the red light of conflagration sends up its crackle of laughter to the stars, keep your faith upon those stars and not upon the fire of destruction.
The pin-hole is clearly visible in a lance-head which the conflagration has welded to a battle-axe.
The houses, as I have already said, must have been very high, and a great deal of wood must have been used in their construction, for otherwise the conflagration could not have produced such an enormous quantity of ashes and rubbish.
With but few exceptions, all the house-walls which I have uncovered are composed of unburnt sun-dried bricks, which in the heat of the conflagration have become a kind of really burnt bricks.
To say that he enjoyed the European conflagration because it had proved him so abundantly right would give a false impression of an extraordinary and complicated state of mind.
He had been talking about it all the time, he had been thinking of nothing but the European conflagration for the last four days.
