We have no regular fire-men, or rather mercenaries, as every master of a family belongs to a fire-company: there are several in town, composed of every class of citizens, who have entered into a contract to turn out with two buckets at the first fire alarm, and assist to the utmost of their power in extinguishing the flames, without fee or reward. ❋ William Priest (N/A)
She had only one sick glance for the scene before them; the fringe of watchers about the house, the village fire-company struggling and shouting over the pitifully inadequate hose, the shining singed timbers of Holly ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
He also organized and equipped a fire-company; paved and lighted the streets of Philadelphia; established a high school and an academy for the study of English branches; founded the Philadelphia Public Hospital; invented the toggle-joint printing-press, the Franklin Stove, and various other useful mechanical devices. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
I suppose it came remotely from my reading of certain Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque, which had just then fallen into my hands; and it involved simply an action of the fire-company in the little town where I lived. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A few nights later, the barn, which was owned by a prominent official in the Boston Custom House, was burned to the ground (the fire-company assisting), as a sacrifice on the altar of personal liberty. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)
"The least you could have done was to make them plug-hatters share pro raty with the fire-company boys -- and the fire-company boys furnished the show; them plug-hatters didn't." ❋ Holman Day (1900)
I went up just as easily as Tony did, before they had time to push me one inch, but poor Mamie Sue stuck halfway through the trap-door and we thought we would never be able to get her either up or down without calling out the fire-company, as Sam suggested; but she kept astonishingly cool herself and wiggled in just the way Tony told her to, and at last got up. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
"The fire-company deserves all the credit, Harry," said Anderson magnanimously. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
Two brass bands, two orchestras, and a theatrical company entertained the passengers during waking hours; a corps of physicians attended to the temporal, and a corps of chaplains to the spiritual, welfare of all on board, while a well-drilled fire-company soothed the fears of nervous ones and added to the general entertainment by daily practice with their apparatus. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)
It was fully half an hour before the officers could "locate" the origin of the alarm and order their companies back to bed, an order most reluctantly obeyed, for by that time the nearest native fire-company was aroused and on the way to the scene. ❋ Charles King (1888)
In Italy now, when you see a red-shirted brigade, do not imagine it is a volunteer fire-company out for a holiday -- it is merely a company of militia called "The Garibaldians." ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
All the vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire-company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to muster in uniform and bring their machines duly draped in black. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
The worst fellow in the crowd was a member of a fire-company, and being a city policeman was supposed to be a protector of the peace. ❋ Unknown (1869)
"I move that we proceed to organize a fire-company of thirty members at once." ❋ Unknown (1859)
It having been announced to me, my young friends, that you were about forming a fire-company, I have called you together to give you such directions as long experience in a first-quality engine company qualifies me to communicate. ❋ Unknown (1852)
He was one of the founders and secretary of a society for the employment of the poor; overseer of the Benezet school for colored children; teacher, without recompense, in a free school for colored adults; inspector of the prison, without a salary; member of a fire-company; guardian of abused apprentices; the lawyer and protector of slaves and colored people, upon all occasions. ❋ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)
