Vestiges

Usage examples of ashes.

Smoke followed them, fire stench sickened them, and ashes settled on their shoulders like the first shadows of night.

A thin stream of powder blew free with the wind, the color of ashes and stone.

Veinsplitter barely had time to thrust his hands into the ashes of the Heart Fire before the summons had come.

And now her ashes blew about somewhere in the winds of Time, on the other side of the world, a lifetime away.

Rhapsody was tremendously saddened to hear that the terminus of the tremor was the House of Remembrance, which ignited in flames and was burned to ashes, along with a goodly portion of the tainted forest that surrounded it.

Both the ashes and the shell of the burnedout building where Tom Harrow had died had been cleared away since he had driven in with Nan on Thursday to check out the smoke.

The stable area to the right, reduced to a mass of charred timbers and jutting debris, reeked of wet ashes and the stench of rotting animal flesh.

The harsh loneliness that had taken root within her warmed and withered to ashes, leaving nothing but willing need, calling in silent, multitoned voices from within her wyrm blood.

The ground was green, as were the leaves and new shoots of the trees, many of which were white birches, ashes, silver maples, and pale beech trees, their ivory bark giving the woods an otherworldly appearance.

Llauron tossed the ashes back to the ground and stood, wiping his hands on his gray robes.

Then she took a handful of ashes from the cold pyre and placed them in a sack, which she slung across the back of the gelding.

Gwynwood was a virgin wood, free of firestarters and other trees that would have sprung up from the ashes of so great a conflagration.

She whirled and ran through the hail of flaming leaves that were wafting about in ashes on the coming wind.

The flames sank immediately into the ashes, taking the light with them.

In the mornings, Lissar began the meal that would be their supper, putting bread dough together to rise, cutting up the solid bits that would go into the stew, melting snow for water, deciding if she could spare the bucket to make soup in or whether she needed to use the less reliable method of burying a lidded bowl in the ashes and hoping the contents would cook.