129 examples of inflammables in sentences

Now we have to add gasoline to the interesting catalogue of inflammables.

The dry hay would serve to burn my legs, which had already been anointed with the inflammable grease.

Soon it spread to the covered galleries and the terrace, which stopped the progress of the inflammable materials.

No general plan of revolt seems to have been formed, but the materials of discontent were gradually being concentrated; the inflammable spirits of the Sepoys were ready to burst into a blaze.

Superadded to this was the inflammable matter already prepared by the collision of the spirit of political freedom with the power of the higher clergy.

The handful of the Representatives of the People had swooped down like a shower of sparks on these famous and inflammable crossroads.

In the still evenings of dry seasons this plant emits an inflammable air or gas, and flashes on the approach of a candle.

These essential oils have greater or less volatility, and are all inflammable; many of them are poisons to us, as these of Laurel and Tobacco; others possess a narcotic quality, as is evinced by the oil of cloves instantly relieving slight tooth-achs; from oil of cinnamon relieving the hiccup; and balsam of peru relieving the pain of some ulcers.

As he thus drew near the low building he saw that the fire had already gained considerable headway, just as if the incendiary might have used kerosene or some other inflammable fluid, to hasten matters.

At the persuasion of Wildman he changed his plan;[a] and on the 9th of January, about six in the evening, entered Whitehall with his two accomplices; he unlocked the door of the chapel, deposited in a pew a basket filled with inflammable materials, and lighted a match, which, it was calculated, would burn six hours.

Their inflammable contents undoubtedly aided the flames in their rapid progress.

They tried to kindle the inflammable jealousies of Nero's feeble mind by representing Seneca as attempting to rival him in poetry, and as claiming the entire credit of his eloquence, while he mocked his divine singing, and disparaged his accomplishments as a harper and charioteer because he himself was unable to acquire them.

" "What gift of second sight have you?" demanded Roy, gazing at the smoking, blackened pile that had threatened the destruction of the inflammable premises.

Go to the nearest chemist and ask him to show you some of the dark-red phosphorus which will not burn, without fierce heating, but at 500°, Fahrenheit, changes back again to the inflammable substance we know so well.

A Stone-mason objected to wood on the ground that it was so inflammable, and recommended stones instead.

The big inflammables.

The big inflammables.

It is like trying to stamp out a fire constantly fed with inflammables and fanned by a strong gale.

" "I cannot wait, Janet, I am too inflammable, she consumes me with her beauty.

Lord Cedric and Sir Julian sat with him an hour after the doctor's examination, Sir Julian, conversing of the freshest gossip at court, without the usual condiment of inflammables which would be apt to rouse his Grace not a little.

The non-inflammable celluloid surfaces shone white as fresh-cut ivory, clean, smooth, unbreakable.

Frowenfeld, they softly said, had in his odd way been indiscreet among these inflammables at Maspero's just when he could least afford to be so, and there was no telling what they might take the notion to do to him before bedtime.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time, and like an intimate acquaintance of yours, when the torch is put to it, that which is within you may burst into a blaze; for which reason and especially too, as I have entered upon the chapter of advices, I will read you a lecture from this text.

Even while discussing love so philosophically, the writer had to acknowledge that "in the composition of the human frame, there is a good deal of inflammable matter," and few have had better cause to know it.

He lighted a match and was approaching the small flame to the pile of inflammables when Haw-Haw Langley cried softly: "Hark, Mac!" The big man instantly extinguished the match.

129 examples of  inflammables  in sentences