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By an unusual combination of circumstances the bill fell into the hands of uninflammable men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Guy looked at his note-book and marked how many apostrophes, the impulses to declaim which had seemed to scorch his imagination with bright ardors, had, alas, failed to kindle his uninflammable pencil.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

That what he supposed to have been renunciation and self-control and chivalry had in reality been a rather tactfully steered uninflammable affection?

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth

In men, too, the same merciless perspicacity sometimes shows itself—men recognized to be more aloof and uninflammable than the general—men of special talent for the logical—sardonic men, cynics.

From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

The helium of its inner bags bad been uninflammable, as had the heavy oil of its fuel tanks; the ten engines were Diesels, and hence without the ordinary ignition system and gasoline.

From Raiders Invisible by Hall, Desmond Winter