The dry timbers surrounding her caught fire immediately, the flames quickly blocking every avenue of escape.
As he reached the tunnel, his fire died down, the dry timber being quickly consumed.
The tub might have steel walls, but in 5000 heat they'd burn like dry timber.
Paints and finishes last longer on dry timber.
At the moment, he was eating his way through the plate of breakfast pastries like a fire going through dry timber.
That old wreck would burn like dry timber if it caught fire.
An instant later a second explosion occurred on the bridge itself, and flames spread across the dry timber of the rail-way.
The hot shot lodging in a ship's dry timbers would set the ship afire.
I sat up for the first time in nine months, my joints cracking like dry timber.
Vonage was a match that was put on some pretty dry timber.