Flagration

Cogline and Rumor had disappeared in the con - flagration along with dozens of their attackers. ❋ Brooks, Terry (1992)

The process is not eternal, though one suspects that after a flood or con - flagration the kind of government that will arise will again be monarchical. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

The doctrine of purgatory, in which individual souls are purified, displaces the expectation of a cosmic con - flagration at the end of time; the Day of Judgment loses ground in favor of individual judgment after death and the tenets of penitence and indulgence connected with it. ❋ WALTER SCHMITHALS (1968)

A comet was seized upon by both of us, at the same moment, as the engine to be employed in the tremendous con - flagration. ❋ Baron Thomas Lyttelton Lyttelton , William Combe (1812)

It was almoft totally deftroyed by a con - flagration in 1 71 9. ❋ Unknown (1797)

It is supposed that he was an inhabitant of the parish of St Bartbdomew behind the Royal Exchange, because be added a chapel or chantry to that church j and it is also very probable, that he bad his mansion on that spot, which after the dreadful con - flagration was rebuilt in the form of a court, after his name, but was afterwards successively called Ship-yard and Black Swan-court,. on account of the signs hung out at the end of it, till the year ❋ Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges (1812)

It is suppo. sed that he was an inhabitant of the parish of St. Bartholomew behind the Royal Exchange, because he added a chapel or chantry to that church; and it is also very probable, that he had his mansion on thr't spot, which afier the dreadful con - flagration was rebuilt in the form of a court, after his name, but was afterwards successively called Slup-yard and Black Swan-court, on account of the signs hung out at the end of it, till the yeav ❋ Unknown (1812)

The watch of a city may guard it for hire i but art wcU employed in proiefling it from thofe who lie in wu to fire the (Ircets and rob the houfes amidft the con - flagration. ❋ Unknown (1787)

"They tell us, indeed, there were very re - markable circumftances attending this con - flagration, which if I can get at with any degree of certainty I may fend you. ❋ Unknown (1785)