The cigar burned brightly again; dimmed.

Holm's cigar had burned short, was scorching his fingers.

"Nearly ready," he said, checking that the matches were still in place and that the cigars were burning evenly.

The narrow cigar had burned halfway down and gone out, but Belson kept it clamped in his teeth.

'I know that because his cigar had burned down and the ash had dropped twice off the end of it.'

The cigar was burning unevenly and it smelled as if somebody had set fire to the doormat.

Taking two puffs from the cigar, Maddox turned the tip to his eyes to make sure the cigar was burning evenly.

The cigar burned on.

A large cigar was burning in his ashtray.

His cigar was burning unevenly and he threw it out of the window.