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firebug
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Taxlink Pyrrhocoris apterus
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He is a firebug who collects Herb Alpert records and talks about Marx and Nietzsche.
And what about the strange coincidence that Shutter Island apparently houses the firebug who caused Dolores's death?
Thomas Ostermeier, then director of the extreme, border-pushing (and now defunct) Baracke, part of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, read his play "Fireface," about a pubescent firebug who sleeps with his sister and kills his parents.
1936 Pyromaniac Terrorizes City A "phantom firebug" is terrorizing New York's tenement dwellers.
Rising genre star Amber Heard is the "crazy" (or is she?) young firebug who finds herself institutionalised with a group of equally troubled young women, all of whom appear to be in fear of their lives.
"So, because I was also tall" — nearly six feet five — "I got cast as the oddball: the firebug, the rapist, the coward".
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Firebugs substitute old nags for thoroughbred horses before they set stables alight and then claim for valuable horseflesh from the insurers.
Why Jesus must burn Ivan has written a prose poem, set in the 16th century, in Seville, Spain, during the most terrible time of the Inquisition, when heretics were being burnt alive willy-nilly like firebugs.
Warman implies a connection between these boosted sales and the escalating riots in London, though he doesn't say whether he thinks these items are being purchased by home and shop owners keen on protecting their property, or by the would-be looters and firebugs.
The final scene lapses into surrealism when Biedermann and his wife, Babette (Ruby Holbrook), find they have been consigned to a hell overseen by the firebugs they have worked to befriend.
Concerned that the collapsing Roseboro might be demolished or succumb to firebugs, Ms. Belloise and Mr. Giacomo tried to find a buyer.
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