Noun
burning house (plural burning houses)
The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood into a burning house. Peter Wessel Zapffe
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. Sonia Sotomayor
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. Diane Frolov
Only a fool fights in a burning house. Klingon Proverb