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No references found	This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams. Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinquish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context Your fireside fire-eater does not think of these things. Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context	fire walking fire wall fire wall test Fire Water Supply Fire Water-Reservoir fire weather fire welding fire window fire zone fire, forest Fire, Underground Fire-Alarm System fire-control circuit fire-control computer fire-control grid fire-control instrument fire-control quadrant fire-control radar fire-control sonar fire-control system fire-danger meter fire-direction net fire-door assembly fire-door hardware fire-door rating fire-eater fire-eaters fire-escape stair fire-escape window fire-exit bolt fire-extinguisher fire-extinguishing system Fire-Fighting Aircraft Fire-Fighting Equipment Fire-Fighting System, Automatic Fire-Fighting Train Fire-Fish fire-formed fragment fire-hazard classification Fire-Hose Nozzle fire-protected fire-protection equipment cabinet fire-protection rating fire-protection sprinkler system fire-protection sprinkler valve fire-protection system fire-rated door fire-resistance rating fire-resistant fire-resisting fire-resistive	Fire-and-forget fire-bellied toad fire-bellied toad fire-bellied toads Fire-breathing Fire-breathing Fire-breathing Fire-breathing Fire-breathing fire-bush Fire-control fire-control circuit Fire-control computer fire-control grid fire-control instrument fire-control quadrant Fire-control radar Fire-control radar Fire-control radars fire-control sonar Fire-control system Fire-control system Fire-cracked rock fire-cure fire-danger meter fire-direction net Fire-dog fire-door assembly fire-door hardware fire-door rating fire-eater Fire-Eaters Fire-Eaters fire-eating fire-eating Fire-engine fire-escape stair fire-escape window fire-exit bolt Fire-extinguisher Fire-extinguisher fire-extinguishing system Fire-fanged Fire-fighter Fire-fighters Union of the Slovak Republic Fire-fighting Fire-fighting Fire-Fighting Aircraft Fire-Fighting Equipment Fire-Fighting System, Automatic Fire-Fighting Train Fire-Fish fire-formed fragment fire-hazard classification Fire-Hose Nozzle Fire-house Fire-house Fire-Induced Vulnerability Evaluation fire-irons Fire-leaved ivy

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This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams.

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinquish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.

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