But it was possible the fire had been smouldering for much longer.

My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me.

On the contrary, the country had been smouldering for some time.

That sat between them for a while, smouldering out like the pipe.

It may have smouldered all afternoon without any one knowing.

Polly smouldered for a moment and then gave it up.

The cloth began to smoulder as the heat worked its way through to his hand.

The fire smouldered and eventually burned through the wall to the school next door.

It's been smouldering deep below the tip for at least six weeks.

A cigarette smouldered between the second and third fingers of her right hand.

She set a match to them and they smouldered economically.

The press was visible in the light of the few fires still smouldering.

When she looks back again her eyes are smouldering and unreadable.

Soon they reached a place where the ice was broken and a fire smouldered on the bank.

She felt the old anger smouldering still, and fought it down.

She smouldered for days over it and Jane was uncomfortable.

All of these issues have been smouldering for years.

The men found hay smouldering and tried to kick it out.

As he did so, each fire smouldering on the deck went abruptly out.

It seemed warm there where the metal structure had smouldered.

Some of the books were still smouldering when we opened them," she says.

It was already blackened with the heat and beginning to smoulder.

It was was still smouldering last night, more than 48 hour later.

We beat them simply by having tobacco leaf smouldering outside.

He knew it for the sign that the fringe of his cover had already started to smoulder.

If anything, those dark blue eyes were smoldering a bit more as they turned back to her again.

Next to him the four walls of the church were smoldering.

And his eyes, looking up at her, were smoldering red with anger.

A few of the trees on the south side were smoldering as well.

He lost his train of thought in her smoldering eyes.

And these feelings must have been smoldering for some time now, yet he had said nothing.

There was a light in her dark eyes, a sort of smoldering challenge.

Guards kept people away, because the building was still smoldering.

The look she gave me was smoldering, and not with passion.

His hair was standing on end and beginning to smolder.

They stared at one another for a moment, fire smoldering behind their eyes.

The wood smoldered and would continue to do so for several days.

He'd been paying her a lot of attention while I smoldered alone.

He was saying nothing, but hatred smoldered in his eyes.

The fire may be suppressed, but it will keep smoldering.

The fuel will smolder for hours, usually all night long.

A red flame began to smolder in the black eyes.

A new awareness smoldered in the dark of my mind.

Look at the smoke coming off him; he smolders still!

Looking down, he saw himself lying on the red ground, broken and smoldering.

The look smoldering in the depths of her eyes said it all.

They smoldered as he did so and then began to glow.

Make sure that the person is no longer in contact with smoldering materials.

The resulting fire was said to have smoldered for a further three years.

You see the ice in the eyes and can be sure the fire smolders below.