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tinderbox fig
beczka z prochem

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The witch gives the man permission to take anything he finds inside the chambers, but he must return the tinderbox.
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But when dried, the peatlands are a tinderbox -- and a new study says the latter is becoming more and more common as the climate warms.
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The remainder of the first half would be a tinderbox with numerous spot fights erupting all over the ground.
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Tinderbox allows developers to manage software builds and/or testing and to correlate build failures on various platforms and configurations with particular code changes.
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With the hall being mostly wooden it was just like a tinderbox, and within about half an hour to 45 minutes it was virtually gone.
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He strikes the tinderbox and sends the dog with eyes the size of teacups to bring her to his apartment.
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In his cabin there were also the bodies of a woman, a boy covered with a blanket and a sailor with a tinderbox.
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A spinning steel wheel provided a good stream of sparks when it engaged the flint and a tinderbox designed to do this was known as a mill.
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Instead, she finds a tinderbox of greed, desire and ambition.
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Instead of flowing rivers, we had riverbeds sun-baked into hard, cracked slabs fringed by tinderbox forest.
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