As Prince of Wales, George II. had resided in the palace till a smoldering quarrel with his father came to a crisis over the christening of one of the royal children, and the next day he was put under arrest, and ordered to leave St. James's with his family the same evening.

A smoldering, blackened hillock was all that remained of the stack ignited by the lightning bolt; but the others and the main buildings of the farm had been saved.

Her eyes were black as sloes, and flashed like smoldering fires.

That night I lay for a long while stretched near the smoldering ashes of the camp fire, with my cape as a blanket, in a state of lassitude and somnolence, my soul filled with exaltation and happiness over the beauty around me.

Paula's "Nedda" was a sulky slattern, indifferent, lazy, smoldering with passion,dangerous.

"Good Lord, Barbara, don't put it off on me!" His wife looked at him with smoldering eyes.

The street was piled with broken bricks and tiles, with splinters of stone, with uprooted cobbles, with fragments and beams, bits of furniture, ragged-edged planks, fragments of smoldering cloth.

He thought him a willing helper, a loyal partner, and he would not have sat with such content in his chair if he could have beheld the smoldering fires of jealousy and ambition in the other's breasts The time would come when Ray would assert himself, he thoughtwhen Beatrice was safe in his hands.

Time swung back, and this might have been a scene of forgotten ages,the wolf, the human hunter, the smoldering camp fire, the dark, jagged line of spruce against the sky.

He could feel it but dimly, but it was increasing, slowly, like a smoldering coal that eats its way into wood and soon will burst into a flame.

Yet beneath this surface calmness and gayety ran a smoldering hate, of whose presence one never dreamed, unless he saw it shoot out in an ugly flare.

Add to this the supplanting of competent executive officers by a staff of political trenchermen, ignorant alike of the science of railroading, and the equally important sub-science of industrial manhandling, and you have the kindling for the fire of insurrection which had been slowly smoldering in the Trans-Western service since the day when Major Guilford had issued his general order Number One.

Guth pointed sadly into the smoldering ruins.

Meanwhile, with clenched teeth and smoldering eyes Henry Hanford heard his rival in the next compartment identify the State of New Jersey by the fact that the works of the Atlantic Bridge Company were located therein, and dignify it by the fact that the Jackson Wylies lived there.

A quaking administration, bent only on keeping political matters in perfect balance, and on quenching promptly, as best it might, any incipient blaze of anti-slavery zeal which might break out from its smoldering, dared make no further move against her.

Beams are cracklingposts are shrinking Walls are sinkingwindows clinking Children crying Mothers flying And the beast (the black ruin yet smoldering under) Yells the howl of its pain and its ghastly wonder!

A flash of smoldering flame and fire Ignites the East.

He let Dade go without even the perfunctory phrases of regret, which custom had made almost compulsory; and Manuel, sitting in silent wrath upon the porch, listened to the steady footfalls moving up and down the room behind him until the moon, that had been shining in his smoldering eyes, slipped over the red tiles of the roof and left all but the tree-tops in black shade.

For five minutes the great pine blazed, and then died away until it was only a smoldering tower of light.

The camp was a smoldering mass of ruins.

Rod understood this as well as Mukoki, and he also understood why his companion went back to make another investigation of the smoldering ruins.

We dressed and descended to the kitchen, where with a few smoldering embers, we soon managed to light a good fire.

ejaculated the Master, his eyes smoldering.

There were two chairs drawn up before the hearth, on which a huge hemlock back-log was still smoldering, and on the unpainted deal counter contiguous stood two cloudy glasses with bits of lemon-peel in the bottom, hinting at recent libations.

Her dress was pale gray to-nightwith her uncle's pearlsand both Lady Anningford and Tristram noticed that her eyes were slumberous and had in them that smoldering fierceness of pain.