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prairie fire

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Noun1.prairie fire - an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area
grassfire
fire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"


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The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
I sent the three men away, and then opened the sty gate and beckoned Sandy to come -- which she did; and not leisurely, but with the rush of a prairie fire.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The cave men and Sagoths in the dugouts seemed to wither before that blast of death like dry grass before a prairie fire.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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