"I've never seen her embracing-" Suddenly, wood groaned overhead, and with a thunderous crash charred beams and boards collapsed, sending out blinding billows of black dust and grit that sent Faile into paroxysms of coughing.

His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood.

The sound came again; wood charred and fell away from the door, exposing red-hot metal.

The wood was charring, the flagstones were hissing, and the leather soles of his boots were definitely in trouble.

Flames greedily devoured the parched wood, leaving behind steaming, charred carcasses.

The wood around the glass panels quickly charred.

The wood didn't even char.

The table is nearly as old, its wood scarred by use, twice charred where a lighted cigar fell.