Cinders

Examples

• A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But what would a volcano leave of an American city, if it once rained its cinders on it? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Been high and low, on the chance of finding some hope of saving any cinders from the fire. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And having got to do it whether or no, I can't afford to waste my time on groping for nothing in cinders. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The girls and the man lay with their faces upon their arms, as if they had tried to shield them from the enveloping cinders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When that half-burnt log and those cinders were alight she was alive! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• So he raked together the yet warm cinders in the rusty grate, and made a fire, and trimmed the candle on the little counter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What does worry me, pursued Maurice meditatively, is all this war going on for what may turn out to be nothing but a heap of cinders. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They could hear him at his peculiar trot, crushing the loose cinders as he went. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Tamara