"Yes, please do," answered the general, and he repeated the order that had already once been given in detail: "and tell the hussars that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the
inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected."
As the flames gained headway it became apparent to Tarzan that whatever had caused the explosion had scattered some highly
inflammable substance upon the surrounding woodwork, for the water which they poured in from the pump seemed rather to spread than to extinguish the blaze.
Nicholl had thought, not perhaps without reason, that the handling of such formidable quantities of pyroxyle would, in all probability, involve a grave catastrophe; and at any rate, that this immense mass of eminently
inflammable matter would inevitably ignite when submitted to the pressure of the projectile.
As he glanced from Jo to several other young people, attracted by the brilliancy of the philosophic pyrotechnics, he knit his brows and longed to speak, fearing that some
inflammable young soul would be led astray by the rockets, to find when the display was over that they had only an empty stick or a scorched hand.
Sapsea; and mentions that dear Ned, and that
inflammable young spark of Mr.
The genius of republics (say they) is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those
inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.
I was about to throw it away, but I remembered that it was
inflammable and burned with a good bright flame--was, in fact, an excellent candle--and I put it in my pocket.
It was a very sentimental and rather ill-spelled epistle in which the
inflammable Cyrus reproached her in heart-rending words for her coldness, and begged her to answer his letter, saying that if she did he would keep the secret "in violets." Cyrus probably meant "inviolate" but Cecily thought it was intended for a poetical touch.
'Well--that's
inflammable,' said Wardle, adopting the substitute;
If his liver "heated," to use an old-fashioned word, his heart was not less
inflammable. His face was wrinkled and his hair silvered; but an intelligent observer would have recognized at once the stigmata of passion and the furrows of pleasure which appeared in the crow's-feet and the marches-du-palais, so prized at the court of Cythera.
"We have delayed too long," exclaimed the doctor; "we must now pass through a zone of fire, with our balloon filled as it is with
inflammable gas!"
Shortly afterwards, a man in a blue cotton frock, much soiled, came in and bought a pipe, filling the whole shop, meanwhile, with the hot odor of strong drink, not only exhaled in the torrid atmosphere of his breath, but oozing out of his entire system, like an
inflammable gas.