Well, well, I daresay that a couple of rabbits would account both for the blood and for the charred ashes.
They had spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned wood-pile, and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs.
The charred ashes of Waroona Downs had no tongue wherewith to tell what happened the night fire came to wipe the homestead from the earth.
It must have burned out hours ago, for there's not a spark left, only the remains of the two lying charred to cinders.
It had evidently fallen in some bygone bush-fire, the jagged charred fragments showing where it had snapped off close to the ground.
Such charred bones have frequently been preserved in caves, as at Chaleux in Belgium, where in some instances they occurred "in such numbers as to indicate that they had been the scene of cannibal feasts.
This is clearly proved by the number of human bones, chiefly of women and young persons, which have been found charred by fire and split open for extraction of the marrow.
The town became a dreary military outpost of battered, falling walls and charred timbers, of soldiers, now in gray, now in blue.
She dropped the charred curtain and hurried to answer the call.
His life was charred to ashes, but his soul was the quivering, torturing flame of his passion.
And now, because he could not make her his, his life was charredto ashes--but his soul was an anguished, unquenchable flame.
Warm sunlight, and bonfires fallen to cheerless, charred embers and ashes gone gray; warm sunlight, and eyes grown heavy with the weariness of surfeited pleasure.
Where it had stood was now a black and charred mass, already partly covered by the verdure of the wilderness.
Close to the charred embers was a mass of balsam boughs on which Isobel had rested.
He gave it arms and a head, and eyes of charred wood, and when it was done he placed his own cap on the crown of it and his pipe in its mouth.
He turned back to the fire, and he saw again the red bakneesh hanging over his tent flap, and the words she had scrawled with the end of a charred stick, "In honor of the living.
Ten years from now he might go over their old trail and still find the charred remains of the campfire he had built for her that night beside the Barren.
She had so digested Mrs Howell's fact by the time she had reached Mr Tucker's shop, that she thus represented the case of the charred stick to Mr Tucker without any immediate sting of conscience for telling a lie.
A few old remnants of charred wall and timber, where there was a strong post of Germans in concrete chambers, were causing our troops loss and worry.
They find the gaps in the enemy's wire, creep close to his infantry outposts, ride very deftly into the charred ruins of abandoned villages, and come back with their news of the enemy's whereabouts.
His ashes are laid to rest and, with his charred heart, deposited in a stone urn, the widowed Queen places her talisman, hoping to thus link her destiny with that of Coh.
Within a white stone urn in ancient tomb, Charred heart and talisman lay in the gloom.
When the larger portion of the charred viscera found in the urn was burned, to reduce it to ashes, the natives standing by exclaimed—“A majestic shade ascends amid the smoke!
In it he found a statue of the Prince consort; also a large white stone urn, containing what proved, by chemical analysis, to have been human flesh, charredand preserved in red oxide of mercury.
Just in front of the sparrows stood the ruins of the burned cottage; roses were blooming over it, and their reflection appeared in the water beneath, and the black, charred beams rested against the tottering chimney.
When the sun rose again, and all nature looked refreshed as after a quiet sleep, nothing remained of the cottage but a few blackened, charred beams leaning against the chimney, that now was the only master of the place.
An exceptionally fine coup de poing was close by the hand, and numerous charred and split bones of wild cattle (Bos primigenius) were placed around, indicative of a food offering.
The first positive evidences of the use of fire are the layers of charred wood and bones frequently found in the industrial deposits of early Acheulean times.
In the middle Solutrean levels great fireplaces are found with flint utensils and the remains of abundant feasts among the charred debris.
Do not cut a wick to trim it, but keep the charred part scraped or brushed off even with the top of the slit in the burner.
And the police of my country, glad to be rid of me, have buried the charred and unrecognizable remains of my body.
They will find ashes, the remains of two charred corpses and, close at hand, my farewell letter in a bottle.
He went off to drag charred masses of burnable stuff from the burned-out first forest fire.
When they had threaded their way among leaning charred poles and came to green stuff underfoot and merely toasted foliage all around, Cochrane heard a sweet, high-pitched trilling which came from a half-inch hole in the ground.
Several corpses, lying at the foot of the peak, had been charred by the fire.
The ends of the charred branches had struck against a hillock on the ground, and never were navigators more delighted to land.
Below was to be seen nothing but a terrible heap of blackened and bent axle-trees, broken cars, twisted rails, and charred timbers.
Scrambling over charred beams, shattered brickwork, fragments of household furniture, and the dead bodies of the fallen enemy, he drew near to the spot where the explosion of the French mine had blown a large hole in the party-wall.
Bearing to the left, Jack dashed into the charred ruins of the adjoining house, through the midst of a few Frenchmen who, injured but not killed by the explosion, were crawling painfully away.
Long time we wept together there in the tomb by the side of the charred bodies of the dead, for we had no lack of trouble upon our heads.
There, side by side upon a couch, were the forms of my cousin and the lady, charred by fire, as if they had been thrown into a furnace.
Then from the table he took a platter heaped with small pieces of charred bone.
The torn bird, the pail of blood, the charred bones, all the mystery of that weird kitchen?
The roar of the flames is heard, and, amid explosions, the buildings seem to be licked up by the fire, and collapse, leaving charred remains.
The quickest possible touch of flame ignites the oakum, and in a moment the fire runs around the sash, and nothing is apparently left but the blackened and charred wood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
