A constellation of sparks ascended into the summer sky in a rising column of acrid, suffocating smoke.

Only one stairway serviced this gallery, which sustained extreme temperatures and dense, suffocating smoke early in the conflagration.

Flames sprang up instantly and black smoke, dense and suffocating, was whipped upwards by the morning breeze.

The Apennines tunnel was very inconvenient for passengers and drivers because of the suffocating smoke of uphill trains that penetrated everywhere.

A gasp pulled in suffocating smoke.

Everything was a roaring hell of acid-tongued flames and suffocating smoke.

Jack and the bouncer were opening the club's main entrance doors, trying to clear away the suffocating smoke.

A simple enough operation; but it was done among suffocating smoke and hot metal, and literally in a second or two.

It was not hard to imagine the rows of wounded and the suffocating smoke from the log fires needed to heat these stone wards during the winter sieges.

The bug captured his attention once more, so small and fragile, but not yet undone by the suffocating smoke.