It is the spark that will ignite the great gas chandelier.

The intense heat of the day, that would ripen the wheat to bursting, would likewise sooner or later ignite the cakes of phosphorus.

These threatened to ignite the contiguous stacks.

As this was not sufficiently demonstrative he succeeded at length in drawing the lightning from the clouds by means of a kite and silken string, so as to ignite spirits and other combustible substances by an electric spark similar to those from a Leyden jar.

It is clear that they are effected by the discharge of some chemical preparation, which ignites after a time.

To many Florentines its principal importance is its custody of the Pazzi flints for the igniting of the sacred fire which in turn ignites the famous Carro.

If a torch be applied to the surface of a vat, the accumulated gas ignites with a loud report, and a blue lambent flame travels with amazing rapidity over the effervescent liquid.

" Signor Petrozinni permitted the sputtering flame to ignite the paper, and thoughtfully watched the blaze destroy it.

Before they left the table they were all three in that excruciating state of rawness of the nerves, in which a man has the sensation that his brain is a violent explosive which a single jarring sound or word must ignite and blow to atoms, like a bomb-shell.

Lightning strikes in many forests every summer, particularly those of the Western States, and ignites many trees.

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....

"He feels the furious need of completion, some one to ignite his powers and perfect his expression.

[Illustration] I will now show you by a practical utilization of the well known flameless combustion, how to light a coke furnace without either paper or wood, and without disturbing the fuel, by the use of a blowpipe which for the first minute is allowed to work in the ordinary way with a flame to ignite the coke.

I endeavoured, but I fear without success, to explain to the old gentleman the nature of fulminating substances, and though he listened with patience, he was evidently still in the dark, when I presented him with the contents of my match-box and shewed him how to ignite them; his gratitude was manifest, as he walked off highly pleased with his toy, which I hope may not have burned his fingers.

Add to these the long-gathering passion of the dispossessed clans in the north, and that floating element of disaffection always ready to stir, and it will be seen that the materials for a rebellion were ready laid, and needed only a spark to ignite them.

A flash of smoldering flame and fire Ignites the East.

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.

Bituminous coal ignites readily, burns with considerable flame and smoke, and gives a much less intense heat than anthracite, Lignite, or brown coal, is much less valuable as fuel.

You cannot put a fire out; A thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a fan Upon the slowest night.

It descends from heaven and ignites the candles which the patriarch holds in his hands, while with closed eyes he wrestles in prayer all alone in the chapel of the Angel.

Then having kindled torches at it they proceed with them to the jungle and ignite the felled timber and brushwood.

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.

His conduct, in return for Mr. Hamilton's kindness, appeared as ungrateful as unaccountable, and this caused the more fiery temper of the young heir of Oakwood to ignite and burst forth in a flame in the presence of Arthur, whose meek forbearance and, he now began to fancy, silent suffering tamed him after a brief period, and caused him, with his usual frankness and quick transition of mood, to make him an apology for his violence.

In the usual fashion, Sir JOHN (ignites blue fire)in smoke!

alight ("to get down from," alighted alighted "to dismount") light ("to ignite," lighted lighted[70] "to shed light on") light ("to settle down as lighted or lit lighted or lit a bird from flight," or "to come upon by chance") "Foundations," pp.78-81, 91-93.