Embers

Examples

• 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.
• A big bed of embers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, under an iron pot hung from an ancient crane. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She knelt on the hearth-rug, stretching her hands to the embers. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Archer stooped over and threw a log upon the embers. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Krook takes it, goes to the fire, stoops over the red embers, and tries to get a light. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He carefully stirred up the embers of his lost love, but they refused to burst into a blaze. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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