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With the nationals of both districts so inflammably minded, the labors of the Commission in trying to take account of the many quirks in the frontier which are economically and geographically irksome,** proved vain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, takes a brash, gauche, inflammably youthful would-be actor from a machine factory to some bogus acting-school footlights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, takes a brash, gauche, inflammably youthful would-be actor from a hat-machine factory to some bogus acting-school footlights.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the maestra came inflammably on that Thursday evening, and were we not going to the theatre, to see Amleto?

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

After it began he was openly and brazenly disloyal, when the doctrines he preached were inflammably acceptable to people uneducated to citizenship in so conglomerate a thing as Empire.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus