Burnings

A man may endure to touch the fire with a short touch, and away; but to dwell with everlasting burnings, that is fearful. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)

In fact, these "burnings" are the most extraordinary features in this "enlightened" country. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The great "burnings" and the human sacrifices in Babylonia, referred to in the Bible, were, no doubt, connected with agricultural religion of the private order, as was also the ceremony of baking and offering cakes to the Queen of ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

So roughly a decade after the bra burnings and Miss America protests of the late 1960s the view that women should have equal status was not yet widespread among American women, and especially not among those in the pews. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

This has continued in times of war, rebellion, economic panic and depression, loyalty scares, riots, draft-card burnings, and similar crises. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This activity was all undertaken amid waves of smoke from the charcoal parillas, reminiscent of burnings in hell. ❋ Terence Clarke (2011)

Except that these were delicious burnings, and the rising smoke had the advantage of taking the odors of the cooking meats and vegetables up through the spaces between the wooden structure, to float freely across the stadium benches, thus tantalizing the noisy crowd watching the game. ❋ Terence Clarke (2011)

He traveled throughout the South to attend cross burnings. ❋ Rebecca Burns (2011)

LUNDEN: The 1930s Alabama of lynchings and cross-burnings made an impression on the Harlem teenagers, like Jamal Baugh, who found himself talking to some audience members after the show. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Church burnings, I remember if Bush wins, all the all the Black Churches in Arkansas would burst into flames! ❋ Unknown (2009)

These burnings are just a way of getting attention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This style of warfare appalled Europeans, who did not see savagery in their own military and civil punishments, the brandings and whippings and burnings at the stake over religious disputes. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Lasting impressionThe 1930s Alabama of lynchings and cross-burnings made an impression on those in the audience, like the Harlem teenagers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cross-burnings, lynchings and rampant racial discrimination are omnipresent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the topic of vandalism though, a thought may cross someone's mind about the brutal church burnings and atrocities committed against minorities in Muslim countries. ❋ Dr. Faheem Younus (2012)

Fact: Repubs tried to call the various Bush and Cheney effigy-burnings "dispicable" and the Left called them right and good and Nancy Pelosi said that those tactics were "her kind of disruption". ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the book Half the Sky Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write that the paramount moral challenge of the 21st century "is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape." ❋ Danielle Berrin (2011)