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    cinder


    cindered


    cinders


    1. If it was to cinder them or warp them into a bloody mush, or whatever starships did in a fit of pique, so be it


    2. In order to prevent it from turning his hand to cinder, he bundled it in layers of cloth


    3. Latrandura paced her small encampment and inspected the figures, now burnt to a cinder


    4. These hand holds were approximately three feet long bolted into the cinder block walls with lag bolts and lead shields


    5. Far from the camp, the smoke still rose from the many fires that burned the corpses of the enemies to cinder


    6. Cinder only chuckled at the guard’s request


    7. Cinder, then back at the monument, then at Cinder again, over and over, all with


    8. Pliley rolled his eyes at the rookie, then turned again to Cinder


    9. And then once again for realizing that also like Cinder, Celina was his sister too


    10. could see two of the angels clearly now: Cinder and Celina

    11. Cinder could create and travel through portals; Sven had the gift to reach into someone’s memory, and Celina was about to


    12. shattered to pieces of sharp metal to mingle with Cira’s sharp-looking collection of debris, hers happening to be on fire, and they aimed their elements at Cinder, and


    13. He turned his back to Cinder and


    14. I told Celina, and that’s how she found him, and told Cinder to


    15. Orphenn sat on a stool by Celina’s bed, Cinder seated on another bed


    16. Cinder nodded and continued


    17. proven success of our own leadership and strategy, but Cinder had turned them


    18. “Where is Orphenn?” Cinder said


    19. Cinder to port them all away, leaving nothing but dust in the corridor


    20. said, “So, Cinder told me about the war, and how few rebels there were

    21. all the others stood in line on either side of him-Xeila and Jeremiah to his right, and Cinder and Celina to his left


    22. his wrist as Cinder keeled over laughing, barely managing to stay in the air


    23. Cinder could mold shadows into weapons and use them to her desire


    24. Cinder sat at the mess table, feet propped up on it, gazing blankly through a spyglass and looking at everything in the hold in boredom while munching on


    25. Orphenn turned to leave, trotting his way back to the table where Cinder sat


    26. “Sure thing, sis!” Cinder said, seizing the opportunity to escape the ship


    27. give in and unfurl his wings before the ground caught up to them, when Cinder


    28. With a rush, Cinder


    29. turned, pulling Cinder along with him by the sleeve of her jacket, the both of


    30. Cinder turned her back on the woman to look at Orphenn

    31. Cinder glanced at every building, each one of them with a face or a pair of


    32. Cinder groaned when she reappeared again, on the bike seat ahead of


    33. He never intended to fire, but this gave Cinder the time she


    34. The last thing he saw before Cinder drove them out a high window, shattering


    35. Cinder was absent from the main hold


    36. ” Cinder said, regarding the man that leaned against the metal


    37. “He’s an idiot! He doesn’t know what he’s dong!” Cinder wailed


    38. As he chased after her, he knew this was what Cinder desired, but still he hoped he had made the right choice


    39. Cinder shot out of the steam and sped around the corner


    40. of Cinder writhing on the floor

    41. Cinder came to replace her brother, to keep him safe


    42. Orphenn tried convincing the others to go back with him and rescue Cinder,


    43. When Cinder came, he forced me


    44. His voice caught in his throat, and Cinder got the feeling that he’d started to


    45. The song must have meant something more than Cinder heard


    46. Cinder painfully convulsed, and then abruptly, stopped


    47. But Cinder wasn’t as lifeless as she had thought


    48. Ardara didn’t hear what Cinder said next, nor did she want to, for she had run


    49. Cinder couldn’t see his face, but he smiled


    50. When the soup was gone, Cinder said, “Why? Why are you helping me?”














































    1. unwashed since the roof and a smell of cindered flesh


    2. called into the room of the cindered cup


    3. A shell remained: a vacant derelict with cindered walls, empty sockets that had been windows, and a collapsed roof jutting its charcoaled timbers skyward like rigored fingers of the dead


    4. But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil


    1. from the cinders she walks across lightly scented


    2. As the flames licked his fingers, the port agent let it fall to the ground and stamped on the final cinders of the page


    3. There is nothing out there but dust clouds, and a few burnt-out cinders from dead, extinct stars


    4. They also were an ad for Rice Krispies because they went “snap, crackle, and pop” when we trod upon the soot and cinders belched by the steel mill


    5. I wondered if she would blast me to cinders


    6. When the cinders faded away the roc fell lifelessly out of the leftover smoke straight down fifty tails and landed with a crunch of broken bones in the bed of a rusty wheelbarrow sailing out to sea


    7. He had been that boy in the Mercantile and carried my new things to the Chemung Hotel where I had drooled over the delicious Cinders


    8. Midst Of The Blossoms, Cinders


    9. The cigarette jiggled nervously at her waist, ashes falling to reveal intense incandescent crimson cinders and her tender, feminine fingers


    10. He stood tall amidst the searing cinders,

    11. They sang and danced to the rhythm of the sea outside until the fire had fallen to cinders


    12. Snow descended heavily from the heavens, mingling with floating cinders


    13. In the wee hours of the morning, Ghosteater padded across the burned plain, the fine ash and crunchy cinders shifting beneath his once-paws


    14. What is left? For how many millions of years, were our direct ancestors the last, the slowest, the least afraid apes leaving a volcanic eruption? Were they only living animals left to see this display of magical flames after hot ashes fell from the sky like snow? The roaring eruption from a pyramidal cone of a volcano, fiery things coming out of that pyramidal pile, hot cinders coming from above down upon them, covering the land with white, black and grey ashes, just like we covered our food with ashes by cooking it over a fire; all this for 25 million years


    15. But it does, and his neck is broken, though not until he has crashed through the roasting shark and sent a plume of cinders and sharkmeat over everyone


    16. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and burn them to cinders


    17. The fire was dying out in the cinders; the teapot was empty, Leon was still reading


    18. In the supineness of her conscience she even took her repugnance towards her husband for aspirations towards her lover, the burning of hate for the warmth of tenderness; but as the tempest still raged, and as passion burnt itself down to the very cinders, and no help came, no sun rose, there was night on all sides, and she was lost in the terrible cold that pierced her


    19. The girl then made up the coals covered by the cinders, and Emma remained alone in the kitchen


    20. I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself

    21. I had not courage to walk straight into the apartment; but I desired to divert him from his reverie, and therefore fell foul of the kitchen fire, stirred it, and began to scrape the cinders, It drew him forth sooner than I expected


    22. Franz lowered a torch, and saw by the mass of cinders that had accumulated that he was not the first to discover this retreat, which was, doubtless, one of the halting-places of the wandering visitors of Monte Cristo


    23. had banked up the fire with cinders and small coal before she


    24. OLD JACK raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals


    25. When the cinders had caught he laid the piece of cardboard against the wall, sighed and said:


    26. He sat propped up in the bed by pillows and the little colour in his puffy cheeks made them resemble warm cinders


    27. They drank the water from the stream, though it had the taste of cinders


    28. – not unless it has burned to cinders


    29. The depot had not been rebuilt since the burning of the city and they alighted amid cinders and mud a few yards above the blackened ruins which marked the site


    30. Where was he? Then she heard the scrunching of cinders on the railroad tracks behind her and, twisting her body, she saw Alex Fontaine crossing the tracks toward a wagon,

    31. burnt to cinders!" he exclaimed in tones of ironic resentment


    32. The fire had largely burned itself out by the time they reached the wood, but here and there a few patches were still burning, fiery islands in a sea of ash and cinders


    33. “Everything was cinders


    34. People were burnt to cinders where they stood, and thousands died in the months – and years – that followed from the effects of radiation


    35. I had not courage to walk straight into the apartment; but I desired to divert him from his reverie, and therefore fell foul of the kitchen fire, stirred it, and began to scrape the cinders


    36. But no, there was Auffmann's folly, ashes and cinders


    37. Clarence Travers did not look at her, but looked at the cinders around the porch of the general store


    38. And here where the second expedition was destroyed, and it was named Second Try, and each of the other places where the rocket men had set down their fiery caldrons to burn the land, the names were left like cinders, and of course there was a Spender Hill and a Nathaniel York Town


    39. This scene was as silent as if all the figures had been shadows and the firelit apartment a picture: so hushed was it, I could hear the cinders fall from the grate, the clock tick in its obscure corner; and I even fancied I could distinguish the clickclick of the woman’s knitting-needles


    40. From Salinas to Los Banos, through Fresno and Bakersfield, then over the pass and into the Mojave Desert, a burned and burning desert even this late in the year, its hills like piles of black cinders in the distance, and the rutted floor sucked dry by the hungry sun

    41. It chanced that I walked that way across the fields the following night, about the same hour, and hearing a low moaning at this spot, I drew near in the dark, and discovered the only survivor of the family that I know, the heir of both its virtues and its vices, who alone was interested in this burning, lying on his stomach and looking over the cellar wall at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering to himself, as is his wont


    42. Why tell the whole? The blows of the basement hammer every day grew more and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!


    43. Some of the streets were literally burned to cinders, and the roadway filled with dead and dying, many of whom were half-consumed by the flames


    44. They had to fight their way through an avenue of fire, scorching their faces and burning their hands, which they put up to ward off the sparks and cinders that fell in a shower around them


    45. Heaps of cinders and ashes, with here and there the fragments of half-ruined walls or pillars, alone marked the course of the streets


    46. The pick of the army, and the Emperor himself, would have been blown to pieces if but one of the burning cinders which flew over our heads had alighted on a powder-chest


    47. I repeat, to-morrow Thou shalt see that obedient flock who at a sign from me will hasten to heap up the hot cinders about the pile on which I shall burn Thee for coming to hinder us


    48. One of the principal charms of these stories lies in the unpretentiousness of them; they are modest little tales about modest people; people who sometimes seem to have little tenderness or generosity about them, but who, after all, confirm the author’s theory “that at the bottom of every heart crucible choked with life’s cinders there can almost always be found a drop of gold


    49. At a depth of 11½ meters I found more cinders and debris, indicating that I had not yet come to the level of the earliest works


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    Synonyms for "cinder"

    cinder clinker ash ember coal soot

    "cinder" definitions

    a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire