My sole recollection, from the time I fell under the trees until I awoke the following evening, is of my head out of the window, facing the wind caused by the train,
cinders striking and burning and blinding me, while I breathed with will.
The blows of the basement hammer every day grew more and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the forge choked up with
cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
Their march this day lay among singular hills and knolls of an indurated red earth, resembling brick, about the bases of which were scattered pumice stones and
cinders, the whole bearing traces of the action of fire.
'Couldn't see 'em fer
cinders,' he described it, and the MONICA stuck by me....
When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as
cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan.
'They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the
cinders: but in another moment, with a little
Some of the deep gorges and defiles sent up sheets of flame, and clouds of lurid smoke, and sparks and
cinders that in the night made them resemble the craters of volcanoes.
I used to imagine them falling to the ground in showers of microscopic
cinders as fast as they entered his whiskey-sodden aura.
I was tired of school, tired of winter clothes, of the rutted streets, of the dirty drifts and the piles of
cinders that had lain in the yards so long.
Had we burned to
cinders aside and apart from the regular track of ships?
The litter was swept up from the carpet, and the
cinders and ashes were taken out of the grate, and the whole of it was in the bucket, when her attention was recalled to the children by hearing one of them cry.
While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it, along with a burning
cinder, to her nest.