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More "Burn down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in other plantations of America, e. g. in Virginia, the natives did burn down great woods, to cultivate the soil with maiz and potato-rootes, which plaines were there made by firing the woods to sowe corne. They doe call these plaines Savannas. Who knowes but Salisbury plaines, &c. might ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... lynch the nigger, break up the press, and burn down the newspaper office," McBane ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... that the blaze of light occurred which made her think the paper shade had caught fire and that the house would burn down. She ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... managed it so as to drive them all away, and put them out of the moon. And when the mass of the folk were gone, he said, "Now those stupid dogs have gone, I will live comfortably and well, all alone." But after a bit the fire began to burn down, and that man found that if he did not want to be in the darkness [night] and die of cold he must go all the time for wood. And when the other people were there, they never did any carrying or splitting wood in the ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland
... the street and cry fire as loud as you can. Come, let's run at once or the whole house will burn down," exclaimed Olive, by this time wild ...
— The Haunted House - A True Ghost Story • Walter Hubbell
... the sin of violating the Third Term with the blood of our sons. Yet this is not the gravest danger we are facing. We have allowed an adventurer to circumtravel the Union with military escort with the torch of revolution in his hands to burn down the very ...
— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey
... the longest coil is at length exhausted. We must never forget that, if we would shine, we must burn. Too many of us want to shine, but are not prepared to pay the cost that must be faced by every true man that wants to illuminate his time. We must burn down until there is but an eighth of an inch left in the candlestick, till the light flickers a little and drops, makes one more eager effort, and then ceases to shine—"a burning and ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
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