And then Bill spoke absently, his eyes still on the smoldering heap.
She still harbored a smoldering grudge against him for his volcanic outburst in Granville, and too precipitate departure.
She was thoroughly startled at the smoldering wrath that flared out in this speech of his.
He had hurt her where a woman can be most deeply wounded--in her pride and her affections--and the hurt was dulled by the smoldering resentment that thinking of him always fanned to a flame.
Policemen and firemen, hardened to terrible sights, crept into the smoldering sepulchre only to turn back sickened by the sight that met their eyes.
Chamber of horrors indeed--grim, silent, smolderingand sending upon high the fearful odor of burning flesh.
He ran down the slope to the nearest place where the grass was smoldering and stomped on the sparks with his boots.
Beyond them the woods was a charred, smoldering carpet.
Maybe there's a single spark smolderingdeep down in the trunk, below the surface.
He was a savage, and his thirst for vengeance, or rather the smolderingthought of his wrongs, lowered him for a time to the level of the white and red men about him.
She gazed about with drowsy blue eyes till terror of the darkness made her draw the tattered comforter over her head again, and crouching nearer to the smoldering log, she tried to warm her fingers and toes.
The dark eyes, that had wavered abstractedly around the cell, narrowed suddenly, and from their depths a smoldering fire seemed to leap as suddenly into flame.
A sudden glint of fury leaped from thesmoldering eyes.
Suddenly he smiled; and his eyes opened, a dreamy, smoldering light in their depths.
He was one of those untidy smokers who leave tangled tufts hanging from the pipe-bowl and when they light up strew the floor with smoldering fragments.
The opium den off Shadwell Highway, the mansion upstream, at that hour a smoldering shell; now the hulk lying off the marshes.
Out of fire I came--the smoldering fire of a thing one day to be a consuming flame; in fire I go.
The glow of the smoldering log, changing on his face, gave it an expression of agony.
But when he entered it, on the instant, as though the opening of the door had made a draft through the fireplace, a log smoldering shot up a red flame that illumined the house.
He met and talked with a number of the kinsmen, and, if he read in the eyes of some of them a smoldering and unforgiving remembrance of his unkept pledge, at least they repressed all expression of censure.
And Samson met every gaze withsmoldering savagery, searching for some one who might be laughing at him openly, or even covertly; instead of behind his back.
Eyes of smoldering hate turned on the visitor at whose door they laid the blame.
The dammed-up wrath that had been smoldering during these last days was having a tempestuous outlet.
The mountaineer straightened up, his eyes burning with the craftiness of drink, and the smoldering of resentment.
But, when he rejoined the group in the road, he found himself looking into surly visages, and the features of Jim Hollman in particular were black in their scowl of smoldering wrath.
Had any one looked they might have seen that the ember in the smoldering eye of the old foreman had blazed up to a brown fire; that Juror No.
The foreman was a brownskinned, sparrowhawk-looking old man, with a smolderingbrown eye.
James caught her half-shuttered smoldering glance and divined her a woman subtle and complex, capable of playing the world-old game of the sexes with unusual dexterity.
He forgot everything but her sheathed loveliness, the enticement of this lovely creature whose smoldering eyes invited.
He used to call these flights of fancy "fool thoughts"; but they were at least an outlet to his smoldering irritation, "Suppose I should kick over the traces some day?
So it was that Mrs. Houghton had arrived ahead of her girl, and the two older women were alone before a little smoldering fire in the library.
Oh, no, not a bit," he said grimly, and his tone and the smoldering wrath in his eyes belied his words.
I want it that way," he added, in a low, firm tone, and with smoldering fires in his eyes which seemed about to burst into flame.
Fires of anger and resentment were smoldering in the boy's breast, but he said nothing, and turned down the road to Hoag's.
To combat it there was, too, a long-smoldering feeling against the woman who had deserted him, and who by so doing had revealed to the world his drunken rage and cruelty.
Perhaps that was at bottom why this long-smoldering recollection of her aroused his smothered anger.
While he was gazing dolefully into the smoldering ruins, he noticed that his poorer neighbors were gathering the snuff from the canisters.
If a candle was blown out, the smoldering wick used to leave an offensive odor.
There was no sound in the Master's room, and no light except the flicker of the logs smoldering in the fireplace.
We went into the superintendent's room, and sat down by a smoldering fire of coals in the gate.
The Yellow Flower The girl sat in a great chair before the fire, huddled, staring into the glow of the smoldering logs.
In 1856, when America wassmoldering with what so soon was to burst out into a maelstrom of fire, Longfellow wrote in his journal, "Dined with Agassiz to meet Emerson and others.
Many times, at night, after ascending a stream to find a ford, we could look back and see our smoldering camp-fires of the day before.
On every hand he could see the smoldering embers of the fires by which the savages had cooked their suppers, but not a living being was in sight.
The smoldering resentment of years burst into flame, and within a week all that was left of insurance in America was the record of a monstrous and cruel delusion written in the blood of its promoters.
I sometimes long for one of the old-fashioned talks before your smoldering logs!
Ordinarily, he and Red were on good enough terms, but at this moment he felt a slow, smoldering anger against the fellow who, he felt, had been the main cause of forcing Ranny out of the box.
A dull, smoldering anger began to glow within him, and one hand gripped his staff tightly.
A moment later Conan saw a man crawling over the flaming floor toward him--a man whose progress left a broad bloody smear on the smoldering surface.
From his repellent, impassioned face she glanced to the sinister skull, smoldering and glowing on the floor near the dead man.
The accursed thing had sprung out of the smoldering floor without warning.
She made no resistance, but the smoldering of her eyes showed that she was unconquered in spirit, at least.
Then he drew himself erect with a mighty effort and swept the crowd with a glance, the fires of passion still leaping and smoldering in his eyes.
