A number of figures on the beach were hastening in his direction; from the pier afar, a naphtha put out; he could hear faintly the sound of the engine.

He turned a quick glance back toward the naphtha.

At that moment a shrill whistle from behind reminded him once more of the naphtha; he could have laughed.

The naphtha was coming up fast; amid the turmoil of his thoughts he realized this vaguely.

In the naphtha some one's voice belched through a megaphone; he laughed outright now.

A dazzling white glow suddenly surrounded him; from the naphtha a search-light had been flashed.

The light leaped into the air with the motion of the naphtha, and, in an instant was gone, but the impress of a single detail remained on his retinaof a side ladder, lowered, no doubt, for the woman, and not yet hoisted into place on the big boat.

During this ceremony, some person places on his head a garland of straw, or dry herbs, filled with burning coals, on which they pour sandrach, which takes fire as strongly as naphtha; notwithstanding of which, he continues his progress without betraying any sense of pain, or change of countenance, though the crown of his head be all on fire, and the stench of his burning flesh is felt all round.

[Coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.

Meanwhile every one shouted, the naphtha flared, the drums beat, the horses champed.

Then they threw at them among other things the bituminous naphtha of which I wrote above [Footnote: Compare the beginning of Book Thirty-six (supplied from Xiphilinus).] and set fire to the engines and all the soldiers that were struck with it.

From cellar to garret nearly every remaining house was systematically drenched with naphtha and the torch applied, and when all was over hundreds of gallons were tossed into the River Scheldt.

But before pouring on the naphtha and lighting the flame they freed his canary bird.

It was not till next day that I discovered the causerotten naphtha, which springs in large quantities from the ground all round the village.

The Artificial Illuminations made in it: From the arched Roof Pendent by subtle Magick, many a Row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Crescets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded Light As from a Sky There are also several noble Similes and Allusions in the First Book of Paradise Lost.

It would seem as if another fire must come down from heaven, as of old it did upon the first offering of Moses and Aaron, to inflame these censers, rich in frankincense and naphtha.

" At last the dolorous march had an end; and not a little to Larry's amazement, he found that his guide had brought him to the gate of a lofty hall, before which a silver lamp, filled with naphtha, "yielded light as from a sky."From

We learned afterwards it was occasioned by the explosion of a jar of naphtha, which instantly enveloped the whole room in fire, the people barely escaping in time.

The barbarians did him serious injury by means of their archery as well as by the naphtha which they poured over his engines.

Medical testimony showed the physical differences between men and women; the lesser power of women to endure long hours of standing; the heightened susceptibility of women to industrial poisonslead, naphtha, and the like.

he said, eyeing me inquisitively in the light of the one naphtha lamp that was spurting and jumping in his untidy shop.

Nitre can be procured in the Cibao, that great storehouse which has specimens of almost every metal, salt, and mineral; borax at Jacmel and Dondon, native alum at Dondon, and aluminous earth near Port-au-Prince; vitriol, of various forms, in a dozen places; naphtha, petroleum, and asphaltum at Banique, and sulphur in different shapes at Marmalade, La Soufrière, etc.

She would have exchanged these odours at the price of her soulbut souls are not vendible, and besides she did not know she possessed onefor the familiar redolences of naphtha and horse-dung and trodden turf.

BITUMEN, an inflammable mineral substance, presumably of vegetable origin, called Naphtha when liquid and light-coloured, Petroleum when less fluid and darker, Maltha when viscid, and Asphalt when solid.

He once lived next to a man who owned a naphtha launch; hence his expert knowledge; or he knew some one who was blown up by gasoline, therefore he is qualified.