After the celebration folks would take embers from the bonfire to their homes to relight the fires in their own hearths. From Wordnik.com. [Kids? Meet Satan. « Dating Jesus] Reference
He had taken a shovelful of embers from the fire, and now he tossed them at her so that she had to dance about to escape the sparks. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire] Reference
Save the prunings for a welcome bonfire and enjoy the end of the day with chestnuts in embers and the last of the season's potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening jobs for November] Reference
You need to stay out in the wood for about 3 years Brian … writing only with the burnt embers from the fires you build to keep warm. From Wordnik.com. [LAST POST OF THE DECADE – Brian Keene] Reference
Loved it, cinematography was really good, and I loved the dream sequence with his wife, the ash falling and her in embers. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Review: Shutter Island » Scene-Stealers] Reference
The first one means "embers" whereas the second means, as Glenda said, "braised". From Wordnik.com. [Les Iles Glorieuses, Tome 1 : Clairvoyante] Reference
Our alone we are as dying "embers" cut off from the sacred fire of fellowship which gives warmth and light. From Wordnik.com. [Father John Bakas: The Silent Sermon] Reference
The dying embers from the casement low. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manor House] Reference
Those coales were rakte in embers long agoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry Written by That Learned, Vertuous, and Truly Noble Ladie, E. C.] Reference
Within a few minutes I have glowing white hot embers. From Wordnik.com. [Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: How to Grill Great Steakhouse Steaks] Reference
Mr. Thompson, crouched by the fire, stirring the embers. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Divide] Reference
Then the embers flared out and it was darker than before. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
Theotime was bringing an earthen vase full of burning embers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The shark's voice was dark, warm and scratchy, like dying embers. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man and the Shark] Reference
You want your worth of say before the flames flake the embers melt. From Wordnik.com. [Rhyme and Reason Volume Two] Reference
A coal gave way in the fire-place and the embers loosened and fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
It spread its wings wide and fanned the small embers to create more light. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.2: Alysia Morales, Sentinel of Suzaku] Reference
As the sun rose, he watched the last of the embers in the bonfire give out. From Wordnik.com. [Bonfire] Reference
The embers hissed and blackened and shed no more warmth on the suffering group. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
She described a hypnotic scene of glowing red embers in the high-country darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Watching For Smoke And Rooting For Rain] Reference
Her eyes stared out at the raining embers as she remembered it that day they first met. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.22: Moving Forward] Reference
The night was dark: beyond the circle of the burning embers nothing could be discerned. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
He moved to the campfire and stirred the embers before he threw on a few sticks. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Campfire] Reference
Washington, and love reawakened and blew into life the embers she thought were gray-cold. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Bessie's humble little parlor, by the cheerful glowing embers, asked me to become his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
They quickly burn down to a glowing mound, and the workers will grill meats over the embers. From Wordnik.com. [Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: How to Grill Great Steakhouse Steaks] Reference
Aunt Hannah had seated herself on the hearth again, and was gazing absorbed into the embers. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
And such one-sided reporting only stokes the embers of hatred against the true victim -- Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
Long past midnight, the ghosts of Mauryana and her father appeared in the campfire's dying embers. From Wordnik.com. [Inevitable break down] Reference
Below, Bajra and the cook put big stove pots on their heads to protect themselves from falling embers. From Wordnik.com. [Slaughter On Rakoci Street] Reference
"Memories of the year glow like brilliant embers in a late evening fire," Garamendi writes with eggnog-y warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Season's Gratings] Reference
It is the depth and truthfulness of his meditation on the way wetranslate experience, even as it happens, into embers of memory. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter] Reference
Our selective denial stokes the very embers we have been trying to put out for nearly a decade in place where empires go to die. From Wordnik.com. [Neetu Mahil: Re-channeling the Energy of Homegrown Terrorists] Reference
With Datsun car clubs across the United States keeping the embers alive, Nissan's U.S. division decided to restore a handful of used 240Zs. From Wordnik.com. [Saving A Beloved Muscle Car] Reference
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