Ember
['embə] or ['ɛmbɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering.
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Definition
(n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
(a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
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Definition
n. a live piece of coal or wood: chiefly in pl. red-hot ashes: smouldering remains of a fire.
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Examples
- She had been proud of having won and preserved him--but another had won him from her, and her exultation was as cold as a water quenched ember. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some time, if I live to be an old woman, I may sit over the fire, and, looking into the embers, see the life that might have been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A pin occasionally dropped with the wax, and the embers heated it red as it lay. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I observed this also, and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The revived embers of an old passion glowed clearly in Wildeve now; and he leant forward as if about to put his face towards her cheek. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- By April, 1859, the last embers of the blaze had been stamped out, and the British were masters of India again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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