In spite of all the exertions that were made, it was impossible to prevent the destruction of a great part of the building; and, though it is now a fortnight since the accident happened, the tire is still smoldering in the cellars.

The girl sat staring down at some fagots smoldering on the hearth.

The troops continued to keep silence, but the swords remained outside their scabbards, and the lighted matches of the cannon smoldered at the corners of the streets.

In his kingdom, the first scene of this fatal war, the flames of dissension still smoldered beneath the ashes, while the discontent of the inhabitants was fomented by daily acts of oppression and tyranny.

Won't that satisfy you?" Red spots smoldered like fire in his brown eyes.

The chin of one showed an ugly burn where his Turkish cigarette had sagged, and had smoldered to extinction on the flesh.

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

I had seen her only once, and then at a distance across the veranda, one night when I had been dining there with a friend; but that single vision of her remained vivid and unforgettablea tall girl of a slender shapeliness, crowned by a mass of reddish-gold hair that smoldered above the clear olive pallor of her skin.

She seemed to have relaxed and did not give Katie that sense of something smoldering within her.

Above the Big Hill the last ember of day smoldered against a green-blue infinity.