Glowing remains

Usage examples of embers.

He must get his colleagues to accept her as their joint candidate, and then let Claudius rekindle the embers of a past love.

Pawldo remarked as he settled down near the crackling embers of their fire.

The charred embers of an old fire huddled between several of the boulders Pawldo had seen earlier.

The great valley of the Circus Maximus lay in a million embers, while the Caelian and Palatine were belching up gigantic wriggling cones of flame from a vast, crackling sea of fire.

Long before the embers had glowed down, a guilt-ridden Hermes had confessed his accident to Sabinus.

And now the embers of the Faith that Paul spoke about are indeed rekindling into flame.

She used the bone stick to hold a lump of dung over the embers long enough to partially thaw, then crumbled it to tiny slivers.

Only a pile of smouldering embers marked the spot where the newly completed house had stood.

They were silent for a time, both staring at the embers with sombre eyes.

As Rani crouched on the icy flagstones, dispensing threads of dried cotton to the faintest of smoldering embers, she shivered so hard that her teeth ached.

At least the sun was warm in the sky above her, and in the marketplace there were no embers to burn her, no lead fumes to inhale.

What between the smell of smoke and dust, the heat of the sun on the tin roof above, and the red-hot embers of the house in front, the little room where Bessie was shut up grew almost unbearable, and she felt as though she should faint upon the sacks.

When she was about half-way a shower of sparks suddenly shot into the air from the spot where the house should be, caused by the fall of a piece of wall into the smouldering embers beneath.

As they were about to quit the spot, however, to the surprise of even his fellow-guides, Pathfinder collected a quantity of branches and threw them upon the embers of the fire, taking care even to see that some of the wood was damp, in order to raise as dark and dense a smoke as possible.

Mabel found that two or three of the Iroquois had been raking the embers, where they had found a few small coals, and with these they were endeavoring to light a fire.