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This regrettable action will, of course, ignite a racial gang war, leaving a heap of bodies in its wake.

The gold bugs and hard money types hated him because they believed the vast expansion in the money supply would ignite inflation.

El Zomor said his attempts to re-ignite talks between the army and the Brotherhood showed signs of progress.

Interactions on the beach ignite memories of her former lover.

A great work of fiction involves a certain frisson that occurs when its various components cohere and then ignite.

I tell you, from Lincolnshire to Sussex the country is like dry timber ready to ignite at a spark.

Steeped in petroleum, they might possibly ignite in a double-draught furnace, though I fancy they would put it out.

On Berlin itself, and the Mark of Brandenburg; there to collide, and ignite in a marvellous manner.

We purposed to ignite it with some dry grass, but as we only allowed ourselves one match that day, I trembled for the result.

He could thus stand a long way back out of harm's way and ignite the priming.