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Familiar Quotations

Fire

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.–Joseph Addison

Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.–Dante Alighieri

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.–Maya Angelou

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.–Anonymous

Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!–Anonymous

Friendly fire isn't.–Anonymous

How did Pinocchio find out he was made of wood? His hand caught fire.–Anonymous

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?–Anonymous

Indian build small fire, stand real close. White man build big fire, stand way back.–Anonymous

Incoming fire has the right of way.–Anonymous

• Preface ix
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Fire 1
• Fire – "Blaze" 5
• Fire – "Dismissal" 5
• Fire – "Eject" 5
• Fire – "Excitement" 5
• Fire – "Lives" 5
• Fire – "Love" 6
• Fire – "People" 7
• Fire – "Water" 7
• Frost 8
• Frost – "Cold" 8
• Frost – "Freeze" 9
• Frost – "Freezing" 9
• Frost, as opposed to "Hot" 9
• Frost, as opposed to "Warm" 9
• Use in Literature 11
• Fire 11
• Fire – "Air" 28
• Fire – "Approached" 28
• Fire – "Arms" 29
• Fire – "Around" 29
• Fire – "Artillery" 30
• Fire – "Ashes" 30
• Fire – "Beautiful" 31
• Fire – "Bed" 31
• Fire – "Being" 32
• Fire – "Big" 33
• Fire – "Body" 34
• Fire – "Break" 34
• Fire – "Brightly" 35
• Fire – "Broke" 36
• Fire – "Building" 36
• Fire – "Burnt" 37
• Fire – "Cannon" 38
• Fire – "Caught" 38
• Fire – "Cause" 39
• Fire – "Cheerful" 39
• Fire – "City" 39
• Fire – "Cloud" 40
• Fire – "Coal" 41
• Fire – "Came" 41
• Fire – "Cooking" 43
• Fire – "Country" 44
• Fire – "Dangerous" 44
• Fire – "Darkness" 45
• Fire – "Days" 46
• Fire – "Deadly" 47
• Fire – "Destructive" 47
• Fire – "Drawn" 48
• Fire – "Dying" 48
• Fire – "Earth's" 50
• Fire – "End" 50
• Fire – "Enemy" 51
• Fire – "Escaped" 51
• Fire – "Evening" 52
• Fire – "Eyes" 52
• Fire – "Fallen" 56
• Fire – "Far" 57
• Fire – "Feet" 57
• Fire – "Feels" 58
• Fire – "Few" 58
• Fire – "Fierce" 59
• Fire – "Flash" 60
• Fire – "Food" 60
• Fire – "Form" 61
• Fire – "Found" 61
• Fire – "Full" 62
• Fire – "Glow" 63
• Fire – "Going" 64
• Fire – "Gone" 65
• Fire – "Grass" 66
• Fire – "Great" 66
• Fire – "Gun" 68
• Fire – "Hall" 70
• Fire – "Hand" 70
• Fire – "Head" 71
• Fire – "Heart" 72
• Fire – "Hearth" 73
• Fire – "Heavy" 74
• Fire – "Henry" 75
• Fire – "Home" 75
• Fire – "Hours" 76
• Fire – "Houses" 76
• Fire – "Keeping" 77
• Fire – "Kitchen" 79
• Fire – "Large" 79
• Fire – "Little" 80
• Fire – "Looking" 83
• Fire – "Making" 84
• Fire – "Men" 88
• Fire – "Moment" 91
• Fire – "Mother" 92
• Fire – "Mounted" 93
• Fire – "Movement" 93
• Fire – "Nature" 94
• Fire – "Near" 94
• Fire – "Needed" 95
• Fire – "Night" 95
• Fire – "Nothing" 97
• Fire – "Old" 97
• Fire – "Once" 98
• Fire – "Open" 99
• Fire – "Orders" 100
• Fire – "Passionate" 100
• Fire – "Pieces" 101
• Fire – "Place" 101
• Fire – "Playing" 103
• Fire – "Purpose" 103
• Fire – "Rained" 103
• Fire – "Reading" 104
• Fire – "Reflection" 104
• Fire – "Rest" 105
• Fire – "Return" 105
• Fire – "Roared" 106
• Fire – "Rock" 107
• Fire – "Room" 107
• Fire – "Rose" 108
• Fire – "Round" 109
• Fire – "Ran" 110
• Fire – "Saved" 111
• Fire – "Shadow" 111
• Fire – "Side" 112
• Fire – "Sat" 112
• Fire – "Slept" 115
• Fire – "Smoke" 115
• Fire – "Smouldering" 116
• Fire – "Soldiers" 117
• Fire – "Soon" 117
• Fire – "Soul" 119
• Fire – "Standing" 119
• Fire – "Sticks" 120
• Fire – "Stones" 121
• Fire – "Sure" 121
• Fire – "Thing" 122
• Fire – "Thus" 123
• Fire – "Waiting" 123
• Fire – "Wall" 123
• Fire – "Warmed" 124
• Fire – "Weather" 124
• Fire – "White" 125
• Fire – "Wildly" 125
• Fire – "Wondered" 126
• Fire – "Wood" 126
• Fire – "Word" 127
• Fire – "Work" 127
• Fire – "Young" 128
• Frost 129
• Frost – "Autumnal" 152
• Frost – "Crisping" 153
• Frost – "Degrees" 154
• Frost – "Disappeared" 154
• Frost – "Fields" 155
• Frost – "Flowed" 155
• Frost – "Harvest" 156
• Frost – "Season" 156
• Frost – "Severe" 157
• Frost – "Sharp" 158
• Frost – "Spring" 159
• Frost – "Stars" 160
• Frost – "Temperature" 161
• Frost – "Thaw" 162
• Frost – "Woods" 162
• Frost – "Year" 163
• Frost, as opposed to "Warm" 164
• Nonfiction Usage 165
• Lyrical Usage 165
• Script Usage 166
• Historical Usage 178
• Spoken Usage 179
• Presidential Usage 179
• Song Title Usage 180
• Bible Usage 180
• Qur'anic Usage 212
• Journalism Usage 221
• Encyclopedic Usage 389
• Lexicographic Usage 473
• Index 557