Estimates have been carefully made, and we are gravely informed of the probable amount of combustive material required to supply the sun's demands for given periods.
"New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces"
Henry Raymond Rogers
She was such a picture of the martyr by the slow social combustive process, that it almost seemed to him he could see a pale lambent nimbus round her head.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)