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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of smolder.

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  • The death-like eyes of a dozen laser lenses stared back at him, and around him the bodies of Janice, Luke and Morgan still smoldered from the lethal burns. “Why? ” he whispered, his voice wavering as he struggled to hold his shaking hand still. “Why did you do this? ” “Samuel, ” she answered, her voice like cold wind chimes within the hollow tomb that the chamber had become. “You know I did this … I did all this for you.

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  • There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • In dozens of cities, empty shells of destroyed buildings were clouded with smoke from fires that still smoldered.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Ayers may have outgrown his affection for violence, but his attraction to radical politics smoldered on.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • She walked through streets where buildings still smoldered to reach the clinic, which had been destroyed.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • A pillar of black smoke from a burning heap of tires ignited by the bombardment billowed over the port, and nearby the charred shells of some 250 brand new cars, all torched in the shelling, smoldered.

    NATO jets blast Libyan troops 2011

  • She walked through streets where buildings still smoldered to reach the clinic, which had been destroyed.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • They came into a room bright with windows, where a big log smoldered in a rough-stone fireplace.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • In dozens of cities, empty shells of destroyed buildings were clouded with smoke from fires that still smoldered.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • But there are times – and in her eyes smoldered up that hungry yearning I've mentioned — 'there are times when I wish most awful bad for that Thoreau man to happen along.'

    The Night-Born 2010

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