But after a hundred years, or a thousand, the flames of passion are little more than a glow in the ash of a long-dead fire.

In the grate alongside there were the remains of a long-dead fire, grey ash and black shavings of wood or paper.

Not Jehan, across the long-dead fire.

Ashes of long-dead fires were heaped in several places.

On a broken hearthstone lay the charred remnants of a long-dead fire.

Nearby were the ashes of a long-dead fire.

The room was clean and empty; Grey breathed in, but smelled nothing other than wax and floor polish, with a faint whiff of long-dead fires.

They stared at him with hunger in their eyes, their childlike faces vulpine and as pale as the ashes of a long-dead fire.

It smelled of long-dead fires, dust and old yeast.

And then, probing the farther recesses of the cavern, I saw a blackened circle of stones and the traces of a long-dead fire.