The carriers shouldered their loads again, and we knocked out our tobacco into the grass; but the caravan did not start till the two Lapps had come up and carefully stamped out any smoulder which might remain.
When the camp is struck, all remaining embers are tossed into the water, and then the extinguishing fluid is scooped up and soused over the hearth till not the faintest smoulder remains.
If he had had the luck to be an only child, he might have lived as his father had done, letting his meagre competence smoulder on almost without consuming, like the fuel in an air-tight stove.
Sometimes the fire may smoulder and seem as if it were going out, or were quite extinguished, and again it will find some new material to seize upon, and flame up as fiercely as ever.
He was marching up and down, his hands swinging, seeming to smoulder almost in the gloom.
Far better To perish in a flare, than smoulder away Your life in smother: and what are faggots for, If not for firing?
The fire was nothing but a smoulder of the carpet, but I was slowly being asphyxiated.
There was no blaze, just a dullsmoulder and a lot of smoke.
When he got back he cleared the hearthstone, blew the peat into a red smoulder with his mouth, then took the doll, spoke to it solemnly, placed it upon the hottest part of the hearth, and piled the red embers round it.
All the sounds had ceased, and already the great flames were going out, leaving a red smoulder of ashes and big scarlet stems.
The moon was like a wonderful white lantern in the purple sky; there was but a smoulder of stars.
Pippin did not break out again, though fire seemed to smoulder behind the bars of his courteous irony.
His was one of those dark and passionate souls which smoulder in this harsh Midland district as slag-heaps smoulder on the pit-banks, revealing their strange fires only in the darkness.
His eyes did not even smoulder into that suppressed rage which mischievously she used to tease into them for the pleasure of seeing them snap.
Recicourt, 1917 XVI The dull-eyed girl in bronze implores Apollo To warm these dying satyrs and to raise Their withered wreaths that rot in every hollow Or smoulder redly in the pungent haze.
Great piles of fallen leaves Smoulder in every street And through the columned smoke a scarlet jet Of flame darts out and disappears.
To smoulder away to ashes, without breaking into flame (A.
There was a dull smoulder in his large bloodshot black eyes which seemed to bode trouble.
For a flicker of an eyelash she was off her guard, and he caught a smoulder of extraordinary passion in her half-closed eyes.
That same night, when they held a council of war, there was seen a smoulder of that fire which you might have decently supposed put out.
These huge cavernous chimneys are rarely swept, and at last catch alight and smoulder for many days: presently fire breaks out in the middle of a room under which the beam passes.
A dull fire of indignation against David Powell began to smoulder in the old man's heart, as he pondered these things.
Then suddenly she tore the note she had just written across, threw it into the fire, and watched it blaze and smoulder into blackness.
Harburn, with the old spark and smoulderin his eyes.
And I saw the familiar spark and smoulder in his eyes.
The black eyes seemed to glow with an inner lustre, like the smoulder of banked fires.
Between the narrowed lids the black eyes seemed to smoulder as they fixed upon the face of the white man.
Quite clearly visible beyond the smoulder of the fire, a wintry waste of rock and snow, boulder beyond boulder, passed into a dun obscurity.
I remember how a squib made my glove smoulder and singed me, and how my mother kissed me for taking it like a man.
I know him when the last red brands of day Smoulder away, And when the vernal showers Bring back the heart to all my valley flowers In the soft hours.
Into her eyes came something like a smoulder as though in resentment of unwarranted trespassing, then seeing Bud and Halloway and Brent she came aboard and demanded curtly, "What be all these men doin' hyar?
Slowly the stunned eyes in the waxen white face became less wonder-wide and began to smoulder with outraged realization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoulder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
