What is "cookfire"

Usage examples of "cookfire".

Polished to a gleaming white, the bones glittered like candleflames in the relative brilliance of the rakhene cookfires.

Outside of the wire there was a full-scale vagrant jungle, complete with dead vehicles, cannibalized containers, Styrofoam and cardboard shanties, cookfires, and teeming humanity.

Most simply went about their business, cleaning weapons and tack, eating, or simply exchanging stories around the many smoky cookfires scattered through the camp.

Though Gurgi eyed the dells longingly, sniffing the smoke of cookfires wafting from the cottage chimneys, Taran did not turn from the path he had chosen.

Various cookfires painted smoke-stained, mottled patterns of light on the undersides of the tarps.

Fourteenth Army were strangely arrayed throughout the encampment once the tents had been raised and the cookfires started, seemingly casually seated in a manner that, if seen from on high, would have resembled a vast, knotted rope.

They heard bursts of coarse laughter, smelled cookfires and food, glimpsed rooms where dwarves repaired gear or stoked charcoal fires for forging.

But the cookfires were big, sunken pits, they had fresh vegetables and ten newly caught wirrels to offer, and a thin and bitter wine.

That man signaled to me that he was building a cookfire there, while the herdmen take their count of his cattle.

The cookfires and the watchfires lit the encampment, and he heard the voices of his clan raised like sparks into the night.

Dywen was holding forth at the cookfire as Chett got his heel of hardbread and a bowl of bean and bacon soup from Hake the cook.

Aoife was squatting on the floor, feeding the cookfire, one chip at a time.

They had no need to rig up protection for cookfires, and could provide her and her early guest with a full breakfast prepared in the galley.

Squires tossed pails of water over cookfires, while soldiers took out their oilstones to give their blades one last good lick.

After Tsong, his family, and Li disappeared, they chatted for a while, then piecemeal went back to their cookfires, handmills, looms, tools, animals, all that kept them alive as it had kept their ancestors alive from time out of mind.