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bone fire
noun
Fires lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.
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The Bone Fire by György Dragomán An old woman comes to a boarding school to pick up a girl whose parents were killed in a car crash.
"I think it's really funny to put the electrical storm mural over the bed," says Lane. "I get pleasure from making the bone fire [a collection of fake human bones, piled in a fireplace] rather than a bonfire.
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Such was the speed of the attack upon the two officers that only a matter of 31 seconds had elapsed between Nicola Hughes switching off the engine of their vehicle and Fiona Bone firing the Taser".
The lights dimmed a little and a Hoyts rep appeared at the front of the cinema (taking the "total men in room" count to eight) and made a few daggy jokes before sprinting away, at which point George Thorogood's Bad to the Bone fired up and three male entertainers strode in dressed in LA highway patrol gear and shining their flashlights into the audience (incredibly, this is not a euphemism).
Mr Clarke said only 31 seconds elapsed between PC Hughes switching off the police car engine and PC Bone firing the Taser - such was the speed of the attack.
complete the quest by defeating the shake spears and bone fires, then the boss.
"Afterland" works its wonders with an intentionally rationed vocabulary, its counters combined and recombined in poem after poem: stars, water, hair, bones, fire.
"We can save the Earth from turning to dust and bones, from fire and flood," said Emily.
The bare-bones Friendly Fire production at the 14th Street Theater stars Daniel J. Travanti as Con, a role he's honed in Washington and Denver and at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
Chance would be a fine thing – in his pre-professional days Stokes once broke a bone attacking a fire door, so this was not even a first offence.
But his fate remained a mystery for two years until Scotland Yard detectives investigating the disappearances found fragments of bone in a fire used to try to destroy the evidence.
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