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After the sides of Mont Pele had gaped apart and hurled their white-hot whirlwind of fire over the doomed town on that fatal May 8, 1902 a fiery whirlwind which calcined every human being and every building in the town in less than one minute molten lava poured into the valley of the Roxelana until it filled it up entirely, burying houses, gardens and plantations alike.
And while he was so doing, and the babe like to burst with weeping, and I gone mad with not knowing what to be at, comes that wench, comrade, and jerks up th' babe, and sets th' white-hot metal in 's soft flesh. Ay, comrade, a did, and a held it there till where th' dog's fangs had been was burned as black as th' anvil.
These were mere incidents entirely commonplace but at six o'clock James Stonehouse himself had driven up in a taxi, to the driver of which he had appeared to hand the contents of all his pockets, and a moment later stormed into the house in a mood which was, if anything, more devastating than his ungovernable rages. He had been exuberant exultant his good-humour white-hot and dangerous.
"There's only one part of my travel that I want to forget and that's the one smooth bit. And it's hateful to me and you've been reminding me of it. I must tell you now that I'd rather be burnt by a white-hot iron" here she gave him a wide and horrified look like a child who speaks of some dreadful remembered punishment "than do that thing you've asked of me.
A soundless presence as of roaring flame possessed the house the same, I presume, that was to the children a silent wind. Involuntarily I turned to the hearth: its fire was a still small moveless glow. But I saw the worm-thing come creeping out, white-hot, vivid as incandescent silver, the live heart of essential fire. Along the floor it crawled toward the settle, going very slow.
The chief slave-driver, whose name, I remember, was Alvarez, saw it too, and called out: `Juan, this heretic is fainting; bring the fire-bucket. "The man brought it; Alvarez took out a white-hot iron, and oh, sirs, I cannot describe what then happened, but I can hear that man's shrieks now, as I tell of it! It was awful; and would shrivel my tongue to relate, and your ears to hear.
The same force of gravitation, or the same pressure of the surrounding ether, which compresses the central mass into a fiery globe, will act upon the loose material of the arms and compress it into smaller globes. But there is an interesting and acute difference of opinion amongst modern experts as to whether these smaller globes, the early planets, would become white-hot bodies.
Baltimore was white-hot with southern zeal, determined that the Bay State troops should never reach Washington through that metropolis. Eight of the cars containing the soldiers were drawn safely across the city. The next was assailed by a hooting mob, and the windows smashed in by bricks and paving stones. Some of the soldiers were wounded by pistol shots, and a scattering fire was returned.
He spoke, and it was the calmness of white-hot iron, which is something like the calmness of despair. He said 'You have done it again. What on earth possessed you to make a dam? 'We were being beavers, said H. O., in proud tones. He did not see as we did where Albert's uncle's tone pointed to. 'No doubt, said Albert's uncle, rubbing his hands through his hair. 'No doubt! no doubt!
At this time there was seen a continual roll of balls of white fire down the sides of the peak of Rakata, caused, doubtless, by the ejection of white-hot fragments of lava.
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