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"The folks could stand them off for a week, or month, if they had water and provisions, if it wasn't for one thing; the roof of the cabin is as dry as tinder, and the captain knows they intend to set fire to it. If they do, nothing can save the folks, for the building will burn down before we can get there."
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I left him, found supper, and had been long asleep tinder a tree, when I grabbed savagely at some one for silently shaking me, and found it was Ned Ferry. His horse's bridle was in his hand; his face was more filled with the old pain than I had ever seen it; he spoke low and hurriedly. "Come, tell me what this means." I turned it to the light of my fire.
You remarked to me on my arrival that it looked `Jolly bad, and that it was going to be a brute of a day," interrupted Kitty severely; but Jim affected a convenient deafness. "Now then," he cried, "all hands to the pumps! I'll set James to work to mow the lawn, and by the time it is cut and swept and the sun has shone on it for a couple of hours it will be as dry as tinder.
Even the thirsty vegetation beside the roads was coated gray, and was so tinder dry that it seemed as if a lighted match would explode it. The sun glared cruelly, and the pyramidal piles of iron pipe chained to the groaning trucks and plunging trailers were hot enough to fry eggs upon, but neither they nor the steaming radiators gave off more heat than the soil and the rocks.
At that instant: the wind from the wide open window and door blew the lamp flame and stirred the curtains, and a great sheet of whole black tinder drifted across the carpet up to my feet. Then I knew he was burning, or had burnt, my work. A flame was dying down in the grate, filled and overflowing with ragged black fragments.
From the nearest conflagration a great snapping and crackling of juicy stalks arose. The thin, dry strippings with which the earth was carpeted formed a vast tinder bed, and once the fire was started there was no checking it. Smoke billowed upward and was hurried westward before the breeze; in a dozen places the fields burst into flame.
An ancient Arab author states that in Oman 'men obtain fire from a spark, by rolling the tinder in dry Arab grass and swinging it round till it bursts into flame. We often saw this process and bought one of the little cages, hanging to a long chain, which they use in Bahrein.
In the first place, unless they thought of taking their canoes into the forest when the storm first began, which aint likely, as they was a-thinking only of cutting off our escape, they'd 've been smashed into tinder.
There is the knot at the top that they were tied together with, but not a bit of shaving left. Have they blown up the chimney?" "What will poor baby say?" exclaimed Matilda. "All the pretty pink and green gone!" "There is some tinder blowing about," observed George. "I do believe they have been burnt." "Shut the window, George, will you? There is no bearing this draught.
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