flagration

Cogline and Rumor had disappeared in the con - flagration along with dozens of their attackers.

The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

The process is not eternal, though one suspects that after a flood or con - flagration the kind of government that will arise will again be monarchical.

CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968

The doctrine of purgatory, in which individual souls are purified, displaces the expectation of a cosmic con - flagration at the end of time; the Day of Judgment loses ground in favor of individual judgment after death and the tenets of penitence and indulgence connected with it.

ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968

A comet was seized upon by both of us, at the same moment, as the engine to be employed in the tremendous con - flagration.

Letters of the Late Lord Littelton Baron Thomas Lyttelton Lyttelton , William Combe 1812

It was almoft totally deftroyed by a con - flagration in 1 71 9.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

It is supposed that he was an inhabitant of the parish of St Bartbdomew behind the Royal Exchange, because be added a chapel or chantry to that church j and it is also very probable, that he bad his mansion on that spot, which after the dreadful con - flagration was rebuilt in the form of a court, after his name, but was afterwards successively called Ship-yard and Black Swan-court,. on account of the signs hung out at the end of it, till the year

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges 1812

It is suppo. sed that he was an inhabitant of the parish of St. Bartholomew behind the Royal Exchange, because he added a chapel or chantry to that church; and it is also very probable, that he had his mansion on thr't spot, which afier the dreadful con - flagration was rebuilt in the form of a court, after his name, but was afterwards successively called Slup-yard and Black Swan-court, on account of the signs hung out at the end of it, till the yeav

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

The watch of a city may guard it for hire i but art wcU employed in proiefling it from thofe who lie in wu to fire the (Ircets and rob the houfes amidft the con - flagration.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787

"They tell us, indeed, there were very re - markable circumftances attending this con - flagration, which if I can get at with any degree of certainty I may fend you.

Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany, in the years 1759, 1760, and 1761 1785