48 collocations for ignite

A trench had been made on the west side of the pit from which to ignite the fuel, a torch lit by fire struck from wood by friction.

" This was the spark which ignited the hidden fires.

Joe confirmed his reckoning and, without even igniting the power, was learning to pilot the alien craft.

As soon as he had ignited the paper Joe, by pressing the lower edges of his palms against the blazing wick of the candle, extinguished it.

He had an electric machine brought to him, by means of which he set fire to a few grains of gunpowder; this lighted some tinder, which again ignited spirits, whose blaze reached the lower extremity of his lamp.

I shall first show you how to carry fire about in your hands, so that if you run short of matches at any time you will not lack means of igniting the gas, starting your kitchen range, or enjoying your smoke.

Striking a match, Joe ignited two candles that stood on a little table at one side of his stage.

The soup had been removed; the diners were engaged in igniting their first cigarette at the candles placed between each pair of them for that purpose.

A flint and steel are at the same time made to strike directly over it, and to ignite the powder.

He must show how dreadful for them to forget for an instantthat they are the real inspirers of man; that they ignite his every conception; that it is men who follow and interpret, and the clumsy world is to blame because the praise so often goes to the interpreter, and not to the inspiration.

An orifice in the rock enables the visitor to descend "Hell's Ladder" to the "witch's kitchen"a spacious chamber which, when illuminated by the primitive device of igniting the scattered contents of an oil-can, will be seen to contain some large stalagmites, the witch and her dog on guard; and by pursuing a further series of corridors, entry is gained to the witch's "drawing-room" and "parlour.

A flash of smoldering flame and fire Ignites the East.

Cocoanut produced a match and lit it and carefully ignited the thin, papery end of the ultimate little cracker on the string, and it smoked away and nickered and sputtered toward its object.

YTTRIUM, a rare metal always found in combination with others, and is a blackish-gray powder; the oxide of it, yttria, is a soft whitish powder, and when ignited glows with a pure white light.

First we ignite the grain.

In the fulness of her heart she confided to the stranger that her pigs were sick, that the two taciturn bumpkins were her sons, who were busy extracting a need-fire from the roller, and that, when they succeeded, the flame would be used to ignite a heap of rags and brushwood, through which the ailing swine would be driven.

He lighted a match and with this ignited a lantern hanging from the wall to the right of the door.

But in 1687 Königsmark and his Venetian forces threw their hideous bombshells among the exquisite temples of the Acropolis, and, igniting thereby the powder-magazine with which the Turks had desecrated the Parthenon, tore into ruins that loveliest of the lovely creations of Hellas.

The headstrong rashness of Conolly, who was acting as Lord Dunmore's lieutenant on the border, and who was equally willing to plunge into a war with Pennsylvania or the Shawnees, served as a firebrand to ignite this mass of tinder.

" He ignited a match and quickly found a candle.

But a baser spark had ignited all the primitive passion of the forebears he felt burning and driving within him.

The needle, B, is held in the center of a copper disk, C C, and is safe against explosion until it is actually brought into contact with an object, when it is forced down, igniting a patch of cap composition and the magazine at A, and so firing the bursting charge of the shell below.

He took a short clay pipe from his pocket, and, igniting a little piece of tobacco which remained in the bowl, endeavoured to form an estimate of the cost of each person's wardrobe.

If you can testify that you saw sparks fall from his lighted pipe and ignite a pile of hay in the barn, the evidence which you give will be direct.

Still, he had so much to give, it seemed that in the creative scheme of things there must be a woman to receive and ignite all these potentials of love....

48 collocations for  ignite