Meanings of smouldering ashes in English

The heap of smouldering ashes told of a recent open fire.

We have taken turns fanning smouldering ashes which now are blazing.

Nearly a month later, smouldering ashes and the odd plume of smoke are still evident.

When the troops gained possession of the Tuileries, it was but a mass of smouldering ashes.

A dozen buckets of water were flung on the pile, and the flames fell to smouldering ashes.

Past the piles of smouldering ashes, and tracks strewn, with all sorts of destroyed merchandise, they went.

The fire raged all night; and next morning nothing remained of Sarata but a heap of smouldering ashes.

Ten days before Termonde had been a thriving town; that day it was a heap of smouldering ashes.

Under the smouldering ashes there might be coals of fire which only wanted a puff to fan them into flame.

The hoofs of the animals tossed up the smouldering ashes as we advanced, the hot red cinders causing them to prance.

She stood with throbbing pulses, gasping for breath, feeling as one who had passed through raging fires into a desert of smouldering ashes.

With a deep and sickened disgust, he set fire to the whole packet, and scattered the blackened and smouldering ashes into the empty grate.

On our way Robertson asked me what had become of the remains, whereon I pointed to the smouldering ashes of one of the great fires.

Everywhere is a chaos of charred beams, twisted girders, broken masonry, and smouldering ashes, with forlorn groups of inhabitants wandering in search of missing relatives.

A few chairs, a dresser,-itwas a ladies' dressing-room,-somesmoulderingashes on the hearth, a lounge piled up with cushions.

"Wanker," she hisses, and if looks could kill I'd be a small pile of smouldering ashes on the interview room floor.