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Combustible   Listen
noun
Combustible  n.  A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn. "All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel."


adjective
Combustible  adj.  
1.
Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. "Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter."
2.
Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible. "Arnold was a combustible character."





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"Combustible" Quotes from Famous Books



... surprising that more of this stone has not been used in Toronto, instead of wood. Brick-clay is also plentiful, and excellent white and red bricks are made; but, such is the rage for building, that the largest portion of this embryo city is of combustible pine-wood. ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... Town. In the meantime, Livingston, with a regiment of Canadians, and Brown, with part of a Boston regiment, were to make false attacks on Cape Diamond Bastion, St. John and St. Louis Gates, which they were to fire, if possible, with combustible prepared for ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance
... across the street. The fire had spread with astonishing rapidity. Some combustible material in the second story had exploded with great force, and this had seemed to scatter the fire. The entire second story was on fire now, as well as the one ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side Of thundering Aetna, whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, And leave a singed bottom, all involved With stench and smoke; such resting found the sole Of ...
— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin
... barrels, let's light up an Auto da Fe Of a few good combustible Lords of "the Club;" They would fume in a trice, the Whig cholera away, And there's Bucky would burn like a barrel ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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