smouldered

It kind of smouldered along for a while, then broke out again when both of them began to bid on Government beef contracts.

A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

The Sun declared Alesha 'smouldered' and that 'even acid-tongued judge Craig Revel Horwood would have given her top marks.'

Home | Mail Online 2009

They were neither large nor small, while their color was a nondescript brown; but in them smouldered a fire, or, rather, lurked an expression dual and strangely contradictory.

Chapter 31 2010

Dede did not know he had come back, and at times he turned his head and stole glances in at her -- at her efficient hands, at the bronze of her brown hair that smouldered with fire when she crossed the path of sunshine that streamed through the window, at the promise of her figure that shot through him a pang most strangely sweet and sweetly dear.

Chapter XXVII 2010

A little later, when the sun was quite down, in the background of the curdled clouds smouldered a wine-red mass of colour, that faded to bronze and tinged all the fading greens with its sanguinary hue.

CHAPTER XXIX 2010

A dim twilight brooded over land and water, and in the north the sun smouldered, vague and troubled, and draped about with blood-red mists.

NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

Later, as London smouldered, the irony of the Clash – a band forever associated with riot and protest – being on the cover of NME again was all too obvious.

Punk spoke up for angry kids. Why won't today's bands follow suit 2011

To the left, on the rose-leaf rim of the low-lying hills, smouldered the sleepy sun, which saw no sleep that night nor was destined to see sleep for many nights to come.

THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF 2010

Europe's common currency has defied naysayers by jumping some 2.5% this year even as the Continent's sovereign-debt crisis has smouldered.

Mideast Troubles Pressure Euro Neil Shah 2011

The pageant of the wild flowers vanished until all that lingered on the burnt hillsides were orange poppies faded to palest gold, and Mariposa lilies, wind-blown on slender stems amidst the desiccated grasses, that smouldered like ornate spotted moths fluttering in rest for a space between flight and flight.

CHAPTER XXXV 2010