cinders

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Among those buried in the cinders are the dusky-eyed heroine and her friend mother.

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  1. noun A burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.
  2. noun A partly charred substance that can burn further but without flame.
  3. noun Ashes.

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  • Among those buried in the cinders are the dusky-eyed heroine and her friend mother. —  The Iron Trail
  • Pile up the fire The door sank down again: it settled deeper in the cinders--tottered--yielded--was down As they shouted again, they fell back, for a moment, and left a clear space about the fire that lay between them and the jail entry. —  Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
  • A stretch of cinders, then dust, a rather stiff little hill, a great length of yellow sand and -- the lake! —  Fanny Herself
  • The excavation thus made should be filled with small stones or cinders, and then covered with fine gravel. —  The Home Acre
  • In a fury of passion they seem to have burnt their future to cinders, and with it the season of their bloom. —  The Fugitive
 

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