He lit a straw at the stove, digging in the banked coals, and held it out for her.

And I began then to fan within me the banked coals of my own faith.

Kethol crouched next to the cooking box, warming his hands over the banked coals.

She asked him to keep an eye on Richard's stew as it simmered on the banked coals.

When they were both finally off, she thrust her feet as close to the banked coals as she dared.

The banked coals of an old, distant friendship; when sparks might have flown forever, as from an open forge.

After adding more wood to the banked coals, he attended to the horses.

Her auburn hair reminded him of banked coals.

He got an armload of wood from the stack he'd brought inside earlier, exposed the banked coals, and soon had it blazing again.

And they were marked by a common feature-unholy blue eyes that glowed like banked coals.