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单词 great fire of london
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Great Fire of London
Great Fire n. the large and devastating fire that destroyed much of London in September 1666; also more fully Great Fire of London.
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1667 S. Pepys in Diary 16 Mar. (1904) VI. 225 It is observable that within these eight days I did see smoke remaining, coming out of some cellars, from the late great fire, now about six months since.]
1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. A2 By Fire-Balls put in with Poles or otherwise through Holes, or open places into Houses; as at Mr. Farriners House which began the Great Fire.
1750 C. Wren Parentalia 274 The proposals of Dr. Wren..were laid before the King and Commissioners, some Months before the great Fire of London.
1861 Times 16 Aug. 6/6 In the midst of houses almost as poor, low, and rickety as those of which the Great Fire made a riddance in the City.
1952 A. F. Johnson Reed's Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries (rev. ed.) viii. 168 It appears that he had a lease of the Quest House built over the church cloisters and burnt down in the Great Fire.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 17 Sept. (Seven Days section) 10/5 To read his accounts of the Plague and the Great Fire of London is to bring an age alive.
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