The señora herself went about with a linen dust-cloth in her hand, and scolded because the smoke from the fires which the peons had tended all night in the barbecue pits was borne straight toward the house by the tricksy west wind, and left cinders and grime upon windows closed against it.

If she had asked for his right hand, he would have given it sooner; and he entered the Royal Academy that day in much the same humour as that of a fine lady who should find herself suddenly dragged from the ball-room into the dust-hole, in her tenderest array of gauze and jewels, and there peremptorily compelled to sift the cinders, under the superintendence of the sweep and the pot-boy.

Firewood and shavings lay littered about the floors, while the half-naked children were cowering round two or three smouldering cinders.

Frequently our only baking-powder was white lye, made by dropping ash-cinders into wafer.

I enclose a cinder, which belonged to Shield, when he was poor, and lit his own fires.

I passed wagons as if they had been puffs of smoke, and people on wheels as though they were flying cinders.

But she had got a cinder in her eye; and though she had winked, and stared, and rolled her eyelid under, and tried all the approved and instinctive means, it seemed persistent; and she was forced at last, just as her party was going in to dinner, to acknowledge that this traveler's misery had befallen her, and to make up her mind to the pain and wretchedness and ugliness of it for hours, if not even for days.

She was experiencing the same utter desolationbut somehow less nobleas had gripped her when she first realized the eternal picture, in Oceana Nox, of the pale-fronted widows who, tired of waiting for those whose barque had never returned out of the tempest, talked quietly among themselves of the loststirring the cinders in the fireplace and in their hearts....

This will also prevent cinders from getting under it.

Swirls of flame rolled from the upper three stories upward in a mane of red, tossing volumes of smoke, and the wild wind, combing the fire from the west, rained down cinders and burned papers on Joe and Myra as they rushed up the street.

" Hastily Tom and Larry took off the clothes in which they had traveled, and bathed, glad of the opportunity to remove the cinders which had caused them no little discomfort.

Once or twice Ham or Dab went out to see that all was dying out rightly; but it was plain that all the danger was over, unless a high wind should come to scatter the cinders.

But when the road had crept through these hills, it suddenly shook off the cinders, and turned into the brown mould of the meadows,turned its back on trade and the smoky town, and speedily left it out of sight contemptuously, never looking back once.

By leave of a kindly cranesman, they had spent the night in a galvanised iron shed where he stored his cinders, and the warmth in the cinders had kept them comfortable.

The gate was opened and the stranger strode up the cinder walk to the porch.

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.

And anon the fire descended from heaven and burned the temple, and the idols, and their priests, and sith the earth opened and swallowed all the cinders and ashes that were left.

They have come back up the Richelieu River from the Iroquois villages with their nails gone, their fingers torn out, a cinder where their eye should be, and the scars of the pine splinters as thick upon their bodies as the fleurs-de-lis on yonder curtain.

There seems no doubt that the fire was caused by the maid-servant throwing cinders into a sort of muck-place into which they had been commonly thrown.

But he had learned a lesson, and the next group that he overtook treading the cinders were more genial.

Polly loitered awhile, arranging the cinders.

But remember that no injector can work coal cinders or chaf and that all joints must be air tight.

The wind was carrying great red cinders straight over on to the house roofs.