| Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark. |
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| Everyone knew the stand was a bit of a tinderbox, but none actually thought it would go up. |
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| I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand. |
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| Decades of fire suppression and scattershot suburban development have created a tinderbox and now you have seen the results. |
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| She closed the tinderbox, snuffing the flames, then settled back down where she was lying before. |
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| Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox. |
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| Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox. |
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| By allowing the worst to occur, the tinderbox of the Balkans will be ignited and the whole continent subsequently engulfed. |
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| The ultimate means to rid the plagued town of trolls and sorcery turns out to be an old tinderbox. |
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| With negligible moisture in the air and ground, and lots of extreme heat and dry lightning, the woods of British Columbia became a tinderbox. |
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| They said that in any case the incident only highlights their worry that the Gulf is an aquatic tinderbox. |
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| Some believe the answer is even more support for dictators who keep the lid on this tinderbox. |
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| One is nuclear proliferation in a region that is already a tinderbox of rivalry. |
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| The city decided to cancel the Canada Day fireworks for the first time in history due to tinderbox conditions in city ravines and woodlots. |
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| Though neither superpower has troops on the ground, Alderaan could become the tinderbox that sparks a return to a galaxy-spanning war. |
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| Emma's tinderbox is with her throughout the stories as a remembrance of her beloved family and as a kind of talisman against the future. |
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| The Yukon was also a tinderbox with dry conditions and a record warm May to August, tying 1989 as the warmest such period on the books. |
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| Cottage country is a tinderbox waiting for an spark to set off the explosion. |
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| The tinderbox of unrest in Africa needs to be monitored and kept in check, lest it threaten to ignite as a result of polarizing issues and economic adversity and deprivation. |
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| The area of the incident is a tinderbox where Kosovars and Serbs have frequently clashed in their joint-border region. |
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| The missing ingredient is the grand global prosperity and the formal encouragement from the top that will ignite this waiting tinderbox of change. |
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| South Sudan is a tinderbox of opposing ethnicities and tribes. |
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| Nine years later the Caucasus still feels like a tinderbox. |
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| For now, though, the failure of Messrs Lim and Trillanes to spark a popular rebellion suggests that the country is far from being a dry tinderbox of discontent. |
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| Piling burnable debris in a wooden tinderbox and setting it on fire seems somewhat intentional to me, particularly if it may not be the first time. |
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