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Definition of Conflagrations
1. conflagration [n] - See also: conflagration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflagrations
Literary usage of Conflagrations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XLII Camping grounds—The Board of Revenue—Ten conflagrations —Looting—
... No less than ten conflagrations were seen in the Imperial City, ..."
2. Fire-rating as a Science by Albert Flandreau Dean (1901)
"Metropolitan conflagrations Great city conflagrations, like tidal waves, ...
The total of past conflagrations in theory might be distributed through a long ..."
3. Property Insurance: Comprising Fire and Marine Insurance, Corporate Surety by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"Fireproof Buildings in Recent conflagrations.—In the recent Baltimore and San
Francisco conflagrations the fact was brought out very strikingly that many ..."
4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"As from two sides two conflagrations sweep Dry woodlands or full copse of crackling
bay, Or as, swift-leaping from the mountain-vales, Two flooded, ..."
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