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All were made of cinder block and coral rag and had highly flammable palm-thatch roofs known locally as makuti.
Two years ago, a couple claimed their child was burned by a flying cinder from a train.
It's autumn, the time of year when we get a wistful yearning for cinder toffee.
Even the finest of rookies may be fated to burn out and plummet to earth as a cold cinder within a season or two.
His dark patio was hemmed in by a cinder block retaining wall that created a barrier between the 1940s house and the rest of the yard.
Flipping a lighter, Peter lit the crumpled sheet and watched the flickering ball of fire slowly turn to a cinder in his hand.
She alone has the presence of mind to remove a burning cinder from a table full of explosives.
His presence seemed to add a cinder or two to the dying fire of the winners' performance.
Nigerians build simple rectangular or cylindrical houses of reed, mud brick, or cinder block.
One of the most geologically complex volcanoes on Earth, Etna has four summit craters and more than 250 cinder cones on its flanks.
Discover the desert this spring, and explore the panoramas, sand dunes, and cinder cones of the Mojave National Preserve.
Ground was broken to begin construction on a cinder cone atop an inactive volcano called Mauna Kea.
The fire tore through the cinder block walls of five elevator shafts, turning them into giant chimneys for acrid, black smoke.
Great is its seething, like a burning cinder, a grievous thing of an ashy colour.
Ships in its path were instantly incinerated and reduced to nothing more than superheated gases and ashy cinder.
The cinder block building where these components were housed was cramped and poorly lit.
Rats, too, can gnaw through lead sheathing, cinder block, aluminum sheeting, glass and electrical wires.
With the boiler and storage tanks removed from the cinder block building, that seemed to be the best first place to look.
Finally in the back straight, he settled down, and he beat a steady cadence down the cinder.
Small vesicular pieces of volcanic material, scoria, collect around the vent to form a cinder cone.
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It crisped the poor fellow to a cinder, and sheared the head of my comrade clean off.
What's to be done, then, if a man be drowned at sea, or burned to a cinder in a lime-kiln?
The path is not a cinder one, as I think them untidy, so I was not more than muddied.
The outburst of cinder cone that formed this lake and overwhelmed the forest probably took place nearly two hundred years ago.
A cinder enters the eye, the report reaches a ganglion, a motor impulse is sent forth, and the eyelid closes.
By a surcharge of ore, which deranges the action of the furnace, and produces impure cinder, containing uncombined iron.
Scott, as he says somewhere, was like the turnspit dog, into whose wheel a hot cinder is dropped to encourage his activity.
There was a lot of dolomite and old fine cinder, very dusty, but not hot.
The barrel vault on top of the fire brick is a mixture of clay and volcanic cinder.
You may imagine, if you can, how Queen Metanira shrieked, thinking nothing less than that her dear child would be burned to a cinder.
Every incoming locomotive deposited its ashes on the cinder path.
It's like some one bringing you a glass of water, or taking a cinder out of your eye.
He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton.
Founded in 1918, Stockley's has a turnover of pounds 2m and produces old-fashioned favourites such as pear drops, chocolate limes, barley sugars, cinder toffee and fudge.
Because of the fact that a cable's inevitable enemy is moisture, each cable is wound on an immense spool and rolled into an oven until it is as dry as a cinder.
Athos took the letter from the hands of D'Artagnan, approached the lamp, set fire to the paper, and did not let go till it was reduced to a cinder.
The dark green fernlike seedlings pop up against cinder block walls, in planters, against house and building foundations and in cracks in the sidewalks.
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