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Her hand went out, then was snatched back as if from live coals.

It was as if he walked over live coals on a dying fire.

There were a dozen and a half stones inside, all bright as live coals.

Walking on live coals is still a common custom in the south of India.

His eyes were on my belt and they glittered like live coals.

They burned, those eyes, like living coals; but Eleanor felt no fear.

When I came to, it was like trying to live in a bed of live coals!

There was this jolt like being hit with bucket of live coals.

And above were eyes that burned like living coals.

The eyes of the black-cloaked figure seemed to burn like live coals.

His back was a mass of live coals, burning him to wakefulness.

His red eyes blazed like live coals from his white face.

There were no flames in the fire, but the live coals reflected enough glare.

But his eyes glowed in his head like living coals.

His small enraged eyes were as red as live coals.

The Shadow's eyes were like living coals as they gazed straight toward the head of the stairs.

Above the barrel were blazing eyes that glowed like living coals.

From blackness peered two eyes, that were mirrored like living coals.

Just the thought of it made her insides jump around as if she had swallowed live coals.

His eyes gleamed like live coals beneath the mop of black hair.

It seared like live coals: a fire burned within the mountains.

In the past, live coals provided the heat.

She came awake prickling as though someone had filled her skin with live coals.

For a full half-minute he stared at Vance, his eyes like live coals.

Her eyes burned like live coals in her colorless face.

I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.

This ancient custom involves dancing into fire or over live embers.

There was still some of his old cage left, and a large, live ember from the fire that had cooked no vegetables last night.

Before they reached the other side, they could feel the heat from the banks of live embers.

Mercy crossed the room, and slowly raked together the last living embers of the fire.

Under the ashes were live embers which quickly ignited the wood he threw on.

She snatched it up again, work-ing the live ember out with her fingertips.

The live embers then ignited the firewood; no one was ever identified as having caused the fire.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.

She stubbed out her cigarette, bending the live ember under and mashing it flat.

Sparks seemed to leap upward, while the weird stone glimmered with the colors of a living ember.

A great pile of living embers diffused a strong and ruddy glow from the arched chimney.

Fresh torches arrived, and fuel and live embers carried from the houses nearby gave us several small fires.

A twig was thrust into live embers glowing in a crude fireplace fashioned of flat stones on the floor.

How like quivering flames they start, When I fan the living embers On the hearth-stone of my heart.

When the fire had burned down, I gathered the live embers to rekindle the hearthfire in Scatha's hall.

Behold, it glowed in the dusk of the chamber as a live ember glows among the ashes of the hearth.

They are named after the Bulgarian folkloric ritual of 'Nestinari' involving barefoot dancing on live embers.

Live embers caught in the cloth of my siarc, so I stripped it off and braved the burns of falling thatch.

There would still be more work to do, backbreaking and long, slow labor sifting through the ashes, making sure no live embers lingered to spring to life again.

The Emperor's seal pulsated with the red light of its fractal authenticity weave, like a coat of arms decorated with live embers.

A Live Ember (1892) Ladies Home Journal (serial)

1975 Live Embers - Adam Makowicz, Piano Muza SX 1218.

For this, I took live embers from each of the hearthfires which the people had burned the night before, and firewood from the stockpile of each camp.

His long hair blew behind him like a streamlined helmet of purest white and his eyes, as he turned to grin across at Ryan, flamed like living embers.