cinder

• He saw the great white suns that would burn as brightly when the earth was a cinder, and suns that burned no more, but whose light would continue to encircle the pear-shaped universe till the immense bubble burst, and time and space were merged in some utterly stupefying absolute for which neither Atasmas' kind nor the ants had any ade­quate symbol. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
• I told her it was probably burned down to a cinder, and she just laughed and laughed. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
• There was a no-name cinder-block lounge bar with lots of neon and no windows. —  The Enemy by Lee Child
• Time and again, like a bicycle pedalled too slow, he stepped awry on so small an obstacle as a cinder, and toppled over on his face like an automaton running down No, no! —  Tramping on Life
• But it is to be noted that in former times, when their works were few and their vents small, they made use of no other bellows but such as were moved by the strength of men, by reason whereof their fires were much less intense than in the furnaces they now imploy; so that, having in them only melted downe the principal part of the ore, they rejected the rest as useless, and not worth their charge: this they call their cinder, and is found in an inexhaustible quantity throughout all the parts of the country where any glomerys formerly stood, for so they were then called CHAPTER IV. —  The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account

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