Fire was easy: half-burned charcoal was everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

Nor was there any vestige of a big motor boat half-burned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference

The half-burned horse he had up in his loft was inspiring too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Rain]

He blew out the half-burned paper and dropped it back onto the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

The half-burned timbers of the Parliament Building, Jail, and Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

Between two of these pages I found a half-burned receipt for the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrows]

The big hour candle stood on his desk, half-burned, and he touched it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

Gibbs waved from atop a mound of half-burned garbage on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clean Kill]

Without moving a muscle, she lit the half-burned logs in the fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irda]

The oxen were led inside the half-burned stockade and left to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference

The front room was littered with scattered papers, some of them half-burned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell Wings Over Manhattan]

The moon is high, the fire flickers over the half-burned brands and is dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan] Reference

There was a rat on the ground less than a foot from him, the body half-burned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doomsayer]

The candles were only half-burned; they shed a warm steady light across the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of His Own]

Near by could be seen the familiar ruins of a half-burned mansion occupied by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

The slop-basin was full of half-burned brown paper, over which tea had been poured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference

Our guide picked up a half-burned candle, lighted it, and then opened a closet door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

All he found was three teacups, a vase, a pair of slippers and a half-burned blanket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going From Bad To Worse] Reference

Rabbit pie, rabbit stew, rabbit half-raw and half-burned on a stick over the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

With unaccelerated pulse, he quietly cut the half-burned candle into four equal parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

There was no shelter but the canopy of heaven and no food but roots and half-burned nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

But at last some one woke up to the fact that this half-burned book was a great treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Jarek, behind the others, finally pointed at Darll's sopping, half-burned beard and laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

It was an identical copy of the half-burned photograph that a stranger had once left on the bookshop counter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Wind]

'There'll be half-burned wood still in the stack,' said Meriet, 'and maybe some charcoal, too, if we strip it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

Now and again, despite all municipal regulations, the fragment of a half-burned body bobbed by on the full current.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

The smell hit everyone at once: black dirt in the air, a stink of half-burned hydrocarbons attacking nose and eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Known Space]

What remained of the half-burned stack was between them and their charges, no one had turned to look in their direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

Fighting my way over the mass of splintered, entangled, and half-burned debris about the ship was a slow and painful business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

To get a better view, several officer prisoners climbed onto the wall of the half-burned house against which Pierre was leaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

He made for a warehouse, half-burned in the taking of the town, snatching up stones and loose cobbles from the street as he ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

Conan blinked as he looked into the golden dish; half-burned pieces of wood now nestled among ash that was less than it had been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

The floor of what had once been the store was covered with charred pieces of wood, broken glass, some half-burned small cardboard boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Total War]