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• Above the fireplaces—their fires still a-smolder—hung the prettiest stuffed heads you ever did see Stretched twixt the two fireplaces was a long table covered with a fancy white cloth. —  Magazine - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
• Vanye leaned on the saddlebow and frowned—it was a change in Chei's voice and bearing, was even daring of a Man toward a qhal who threatened him, and with corpses a-smolder in the forest to prove it. —  Cherryh,_C.J._-_Exiles_Gate.htm
• Sophie-Anne smoldered up at Andre (though she didn't have far to smolder, since he wasn't much taller than she), and Eric looked down at me with that hot light in his eyes that made me wary. —  Charlaine Harris - Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead
• She only knew that it felt like the right thing to do when she turned back to the room—then narrowed her new surge of energy to the window curtains When they began to smolder, then burst into flames, she gave Jordan a satisfied grin A diversion Yeah Then maybe we'd better turn off the sprinkler system Oh, right. —  Rebecca York - Beyond Control
• They can kind of smolder and cause a fire later, and people might not even know they started a fire. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News

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