The red fire smouldered in the centre of the place, and sometimes about it appeared so doubtful a shadow that it could hardly argue substance.
The fire smouldered audibly; a hickory-nut fell with a sharp thwack on the clapboards of the roof, and rolled down and bounded to the ground.
Generally they saw by the dull glow of the log that smouldered in every habitation that it was empty.
But the ivory lay buried three days' march beyond the Secret River; thus Elebi brooded over the log that smouldered in his hut day and night.
But rancour smouldered deep in the mind of the baffled tyrant, and, as we shall see hereafter, there are subtler means of making an enemy wretched than striking or kicking him.
The spirit of mutiny was in them, having smoulderedand flashed up, smouldered and flamed again at Stanton's cruelty.
Christianity had smouldered away from Europe like a sunset on darkening peaks; Eternal Rome was a heap of ruins; in East and West alike a man had been set upon the throne of God, had been acclaimed as divine.
The torch that smouldered till the cup o'er-ran The wrath of God which is the wrath of Man!
Yes, all of a sudden there burst from him a blue flame, and he smouldered and smouldered until he had turned as black as a piece of charcoal!
In addition to these weapons, each member of the party except the leader himself carried a fire-basket, in which a mass of red coals mixed with punk smouldered in a bed of moist clay.
It burnt for weeks, and smouldered still when the first white heats had abated.
Mr. Brumley was a friend in whom smouldered a love, capable she knew quite clearly of tormented and tormenting jealousies.
The city fires hissed and smouldered away under the descending rain, soon to be extinguished altogether.
The scene of their stand was littered with fragments of brushwood, and the dying embers of a fire smouldered in the centre of a small clearing close by.
His tawny eyes smoulderedunder his casque; his mouth was as stone, stern yet sorrowful.
Her large dark eyes flashed and smouldered under their long lashes.
She raised her chin, and questioned the man mutely with a look that smouldered under her arched brows.
The scanty provisions ran out, hunger was added to the pangs of thirst and weariness, and here and there in the straggling file discontent smouldered and angry undertone was heard.
Eliphalet's eyessmouldered as they rested upon her figure.
But no sooner had I beaten the retreat than the men gathered here and there in groups that smouldered with mutiny, and I noted that some of the officers were amongst these.
The coals of the fire still smouldered and gave forth a wisp of smoke.
The hard eyes of the young fellow smouldered with resentment.
At this sight the anger that smouldered in George's brain leapt into flame.
On the headland the last embers of a bonfire of welcome still smouldered and smoked, and the sea rippling at my feet seemed to whisper, "Now you are at home.
It smouldered for some time, and then all at once light darted out westward along the bow; streamers shot up all along it towards the zenith, and in an instant the whole of the southern sky from the arc to the zenith was aflame.
The fire still smouldered on the hearth, but the room was icily cold and comfortless.
The torches that had burnt down to their sockets smouldered on the smooth surface of the flagstones, and cast a lurid glow as they flickered out over the stern faces of the worshippers.
Every house, from cellar to garret, was crammed with human beings, and in the streets smouldered the bivouac-fires of the soldiers who were camping out in the open air.
The heat of the day gathered over our heads and smoulderedin the east.
Once more the slogan rang on bearded lips; once more the gold-lust smouldered in their eyes.
A frantic eagerness impelled them; insistent, imperative; the trail called to them, and the light of the gold-lust smouldered and flamed in their uneasy eyes.
Stationary, lurid, itsmouldered while the day died slowly.
Each castello on the plain, each village on the hills, each lonely farmhouse at the skirt of forest or the edge of lake, smouldered like a red Cyclopean eye beneath the vault of stars.
His gloomy eye smouldered as it considered the self-contained buccaneer.
Resentment smouldered amongst them for a while, to flame out violently at the end of that week in Cartagena.
A coal fire smouldered on the hearth, and the arrangement of the room showed some evidences of refinement and taste.
His gaze again returned to the fire whichsmouldered on the hearth.
He twined it round his finger, smoothing its glossy threads, and then he carefully dropped it into the hottest part of the wood fire which smouldered on the hearth.
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