He called an extraordinary cabinet meeting after visiting villages that had been reduced to cinders in the southern Peloponnese.
There was no fire department in Benton in those days; the courthouse was reduced to cinders & rubble.
CALEB CARR ("The Alienist") "Real noir comes in times of stress, the notion that cities could be reduced to cinders.
These were people who had already been told their homes had been reduced to cinders and twisted scraps of steel and plastic.
Much of Breezy Point, Queens, was not only destroyed by the powerful surge, but some 130 homes were reduced to cinders by a conflagration that firefighters could not reach.
That connection inspired the addition of two annual Flame-Thrower Days, in which targets such as mannequin-soldiers and a cardboard truck, robot, giant spider and an Eiffel Tower are reduced to cinders in seconds, much to the delight of museum-goers.
The torrential rain that accompanied the scene was no less dramatic, a downpour so heavy it all but washed away memories of The Great Fire of Walford, the Boxing Day inferno that saw the B&B reduced to cinders and Yusef Khan's reign as Bastard Laureate collapse like a blunderbussed souffle.
Firefighters refused to cross the ring of children blocking their path as the home was reduced to cinders.
"Bearing in mind the condition of the body we found I don't think any bodies could have been reduced to a cinder".
They said that 360 homes had been reduced to ash and cinder.
Hahn wrote that 'she doesn't just burn up the stage she reduces it to cinders.' In opera she sang Cherubino and Susanna in The Marriage Of Figaro, Carmen, Mignon, Musetta in La Boheme, and Lucine in the world premiere of Roussel's Le Testament De Tante Caroline.
