The women were cooking oatmeal on iron girdles, but the fire burned smokily, and the cake I got was no better than dough.

It may be that God wills that the Laodiceans have their day, for the fires of our noble covenant have flamed too smokily.

It was not yet daybreak when Berkley awoke in his bed to find lights in the room and medical officers passing swiftly hither and thither, the red flames from their candles blowing smokily in the breezy doorways.

The room was lighted by one candle, burning smokily on the high mantelshelf; the other lay overturned and extinguished in the folds of a tablecloth which had been dragged to the floor.

It burned dimly and smokily, but showed me the two murderers, lying in easy postures, their faces livid and ghastly in hue but peaceful enough in expression.

The light smokily illuminated about three yards of this narrow passage.