On fire is usually used of a building or vehicle which is burning, while you can set fire to anything combustible, including an object small enough to hold. So, in the case of a house, there is no difference in meaning. Show When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public. But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today? Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
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