A huge lady with curlers in her hair and a cigarette smouldering in her mouth opened the door.

The fire - reportedly caused by a discarded cigarette smouldering beneath wooden floorboards - started in early afternoon during a comedy called Get 'Em Young.

For as long as he had been the General's ADC, there had been a cigarette smouldering between the General's artificial fingers.

The Bishop . . . the vicar,' the curate found himself blustering like a guilty schoolboy discovered in an empty common room with a cigarette smouldering in an ashtray.

Christ, that's better she said, standing outside on the rear podium two minutes later, surrounded by the patrol a'nd pool cars, drink in one hand, cigarette smouldering away in the other.

He removed the cigarette smouldering between his lips, put it out, pulled out the pack, extricated a fresh one, and lit up.

On the chair sat Tully Antrim, dressed in a blue jump suit, eyes furtive, a cigarette smouldering between the fingers of one hand.

There was a cigarette smouldering between his fingers, and his face was pale as putty, hi, eyes implacable dark pits.

For the Justin Timberlake-penned ballad 'Rehab,' she cradled the microphone, a prop cigarette smouldering between her fingers.

He saw her alone in their rooms at the Alhambra, a cigarette smouldering forgotten in the ashtray beside her.