burnings

A man may endure to touch the fire with a short touch, and away; but to dwell with everlasting burnings, that is fearful.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

In fact, these "burnings" are the most extraordinary features in this "enlightened" country.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

The great "burnings" and the human sacrifices in Babylonia, referred to in the Bible, were, no doubt, connected with agricultural religion of the private order, as was also the ceremony of baking and offering cakes to the Queen of

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

So roughly a decade after the bra burnings and Miss America protests of the late 1960s the view that women should have equal status was not yet widespread among American women, and especially not among those in the pews.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

These burnings are just a way of getting attention.

Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy 2009

This has continued in times of war, rebellion, economic panic and depression, loyalty scares, riots, draft-card burnings, and similar crises.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010

He traveled throughout the South to attend cross burnings.

Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

Cross-burnings, lynchings and rampant racial discrimination are omnipresent.

Think Progress » New report finds that right-wing extremist groups have grown 244 percent in the past year. 2010

This style of warfare appalled Europeans, who did not see savagery in their own military and civil punishments, the brandings and whippings and burnings at the stake over religious disputes.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Fact: Repubs tried to call the various Bush and Cheney effigy-burnings "dispicable" and the Left called them right and good and Nancy Pelosi said that those tactics were "her kind of disruption".

Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy 2009