In addition to the fever for improvement, Boston owes the loss of many of her time-hallowed buildings to a more disastrous agency--that of the conflagrations which have visited her with strange frequency.
Flaming sunset: Mad conflagrations Licking at the earth, The blue-black walls of space, Iron mountains vast on the horizon.
In the evening I listen to the winds' lisping, While the conflagrations of the sunset flicker and clash behind me, Flamboyant crenellations of glory amid the charred ebony boles.
But, after all, diseases and conflagrations are seldom more than episodes in a normal life lived under sane conditions, and it is just because these Diaries reflect the real life of these three ladies that they are important.
Conflagrations do nothing but damage, while wars may get power and greatness for the country.
From strictly non-preventable accidents such as lightning, general conflagrations must be exceedingly rare; and thus the cure for the entire evil is within the reach of capable caretakers.
And the first conflagrationsfrom the Paris centre spread westward half-way to the sea.
Conflagrations and subsequent reconstructions modified the regularity of this plan, but much of it still remains, and its story is perpetuated in the nomenclature of the streets.
With all her experience in conflagrations and attendant horrors, Chicago has nothing to compare with this catastrophe.
This was the eleventh, and the Oporto fire the twelfth of the big conflagrations of the country.
Other conflagrations suffered by American cities have nothing in common with Baltimore experience.
Invasions and wholesale conflagrations had impressed on the mediæval mind the necessity of a church roof more durable than wood, but a masonry vault over a wide space was a constructive feat too difficult to be achieved immediately.
Conflagrations wiped out several early churches of the monastery.
Shall we ever know of all the spurious speculators, the commercial men with no resources left, the men at the brink of bankruptcy, who made use of the conflagrations in order to quit scores?
As to the conflagrations of Paris, yes, I did participate in them.
There were nights more noisy, more glaring, more grandiose, when the conflagrationsand the cannonade enveloped Paris, but none of more lugubrious impress.
Now it is necessary to point out that no one gave evidence of theft against the prisoners before the courts-martial; no one could say that the conflagrations had been taken advantage of for pillage.
Conflagrations have the effect to attract the Rain and Wind, 296.
Where there is pasture, the grass is so short and thin, that the ground exactly resembles the appearance of the steppes of the Black Sea, when the grass begins to grow again after the conflagrations of winter.
The drive through the town and out to the Galle Face by the seashore, what a dream it was of tropical splendors of bloom and blossom, and Oriental conflagrations of costume!
Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it.
Still, when conflagrations did occur, we may suppose that buckets and hand-squirts, as soon as mankind came to construct them, were the appliances used.
These nozzles are useful in interior conflagrations and smoky rooms.
He probably saw that hitherto the appliances for extinguishing conflagrations failed at this point, and we may suppose that he cudgelled his brains to hit upon the right remedy.
Numbers of other conflagrations have occurred in this neighbourhood.
For small fires they might prove of service, if employed early; but for large conflagrations they would be worthless.
Even to-day London firemen find similar appliances of great value for small conflagrations in rooms.
Gramineous plants abound, especially at the summit of the chain; and those vast conflagrations extend sometimes the length of a thousand toises, and appear like streams of lava overflowing the ridge of the mountains.
He would watch how the conflagrations burned forth in two or three places at once, both in Pera and Galata their lordships the Janissaries were working their will.
The left wing of the Museum, however, could not be entered, although, after most valiant efforts on the part of the firemen, the conflagrations that had broken out in other parts of the building were at length subdued.
So many were the conflagrations now breaking out that it seemed as though the enemy were sending into London shells filled with petrol, in order to set the streets aflame.
In certain places the ruins were still smouldering, and in one or two districts the conflagrations spread over an enormous area.
Fire-engines, hose-wagons, and police patrols race to conflagrations propelled by motors, and get there quicker than ever before.
Just as conflagrations light up the whole city," says Victor Hugo, "revolutions light up the whole human race.
The left wing of the Museum, however, could not be entered, although after most valiant efforts on the part of the firemen the conflagrations that had broken out in other parts of the building were at length subdued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conflagrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
