| When it comes to reducing vegetative fuel hazards, flame lengths and firebrands are the greatest concern. |
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| The sky was black as midnight, lit only by glowing sparks, firebrands and fireballs shooting into the air. |
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| That's what thrust him and his classmates into the intersection of law and education with all of the zeal of firebrands. |
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| Though by no means revolutionary firebrands, all rebel against the older generation. |
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| Faculty senate presidents, if I may say so myself, tend to be a responsible lot of leadership types, not firebrands, malcontents, or radicals. |
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| Again, that is the sort of suggestion that I think some of the firebrands are putting out in public. |
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| There were activist firebrands getting into loud political conversations with people who just wanted to belt back drinks with parasols in them. |
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| His late grandfather, George, and his late father, Andreas, were both populist Socialist firebrands who became prime ministers. |
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| Armoured figures started to head for the bridge, swords and firebrands ready. |
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| Shadows flicked and he could hear the soft crackle of firebrands set into the walls around him, their soft light illuminating the brickwork and tapestries of the room. |
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| In any case, it took a long time and a large number of men equipped with axes, swords, and firebrands to do such extensive damage that a whole community suffered economically. |
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| He tied firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes to scare away his enemies. |
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| Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change. |
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| If Franklin had lucked into a royal audience, might he have persuaded the King to ignore firebrands like Wilkes and do the right thing by America? |
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| I ride the political coattails of the lobbyists and the firebrands. |
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| Come back tomorrow for how the firebrands of those revolutionary times saw the young Comrade Bob and how they strove to place him in the pantheon with Lenin and Lennon. |
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| One of the main themes which ran through the interview was a sense of pragmatism which one does not always associate with the poplar perception of left wing firebrands. |
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| There's no sympathy for the firebrands because they did succeed, they did change the world, and when the culture concedes a little there's so much less to be angry about. |
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| But she, most fair, most cold, made him thence take his flight To my close heart, where while some firebrands he did lay, He burnt unwares his wings, and cannot fly away. |
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