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EMBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
Synonyms:
coal; ember
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("ember" is a kind of...):
fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)
Context examples:
At least 70 homes and a school were destroyed in the small coastal town of Tathra in New South Wales, authorities said, where people fled to the beach to avoid the flames and flying embers carried the fire front forward quickly.
(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We shall not have to explore our way into a hall dimly lighted by the expiring embers of a wood fire—nor be obliged to spread our beds on the floor of a room without windows, doors, or furniture.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He leaned his elbow on the rough chimney-piece, and gazed upon a few expiring embers in the grate; but he raised his head, hopefully, on my coming in, and spoke in a cheery manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; the other half of the stick was found behind the door; and as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
On the other side of the house an immense fire had burned itself into clear embers and shed a steady, red reverberation, contrasted strongly with the mellow paleness of the moon.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Holmes sat motionless by the fire, his hands buried deep in his trouser pockets, his chin sunk upon his breast, his eyes fixed upon the glowing embers.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
By Saint Paul! cried Sir Nigel, with his one eye glowing like an ember, these appear to be two very worthy and debonair gentlemen.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
