Smouldering

Examples

• An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But it would seem as easy to wake a bundle of old clothes with a spirituous heat smouldering in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• 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.
• It's not a case of spontaneous, but it's smouldering combustion it is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He proposed to burn the coal in a smouldering fire, to expel the sulphur and other impurities existing in the form of phosphorus, hydrogen and oxygen, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It has been smouldering like that ever since it was lighted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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