Thence, crossing the range by the lowest passes, it descends to the eastern base, and pushes out for a considerable distance into the hot volcanic plains, growing bravely upon well-watered moraines, gravelly lake basins, arctic ridges, and torrid lava-beds; planting itself upon the lips of craters, flourishing vigorously even there, and tossing ripe cones among the ashes and cinders of Nature's hearths.

" When the Colonel, mollified, said something about cinders in the rice, the Boy, with his mouth full of grit, answered: "I'm pretendin' it's sugar.

"There are iron-forges near every Roman station, and Abbey Dale is full of cinders from smelting, with apertures to windward to serve as blasts.

To keep them a beautiful green, put a large piece of cinder into a muslin bag, and let it boil with them.

" One of the not least interesting facts connected with the catastrophe, was that the helmsman was found burnt to a cinder at his post.

Our eyes hereaway are mere cinders to these glowing churley bits of flaming sulphur; and then that strange look of the shining face, just as if she yearned to enter into his very soul,ay, as the souls of these black creatures go up and form a part of Brahma's spirit, that's all over the earth.

Regardless of the imminent danger in which she was placing her complexion, she studied the glowing cinders for some moments, weighing something or some persons in her mind.

I would have cut off my own right hand, or burnt it to a cinder like Scaevola; sooner gone out to serviceplayed chambermaid on the boards, or the tragedy-queen of the commonest melodrama, far rather!

"They're burnt to a cinder by this time.

Frequently he would ride for days together up and down a railroad, for no other purpose than to help take cinders out of people's eyes.

The people preserve the charred sticks and cinders throughout the year, believing that these relics of St John's bonfire have power to guard them from lightning and from contagious diseases.

It seems to this noble author that the glossopetrae should be classed in the animal kingdom, because, being burnt, they are changed into cinders as bones, before they are reduced into a calx or ashes, whilst calcined stones are immediately reduced into a calx.