Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ember-day.

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Examples

  • I turned my back and went back to the embering campfire with a single roll and a single meal cooking.

    2009 November | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • I turned my back and went back to the embering campfire with a single roll and a single meal cooking.

    Drunken Fiction Kernal | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

  • Beauty in elegy, mournfully sweet, the blush of youth behind a widow's veil, the deer's last leap, the fire embering, the last echoing word of a sad tale, the parting kiss, the heart's last beat, two forgotten and ancient souls remembering;

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Beauty in elegy, mournfully sweet, the blush of youth behind a widow's veil, the deer's last leap, the fire embering, the last echoing word of a sad tale, the parting kiss, the heart's last beat, two forgotten and ancient souls remembering;

    Two Poem Drafts 2005

  • He came over, looked at her in the dim red light of the embering campfire,

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • Khrest lay supine, his embering eyes barely aware of the alien skies above him.

    Friend to Mankind Voltz, William 1976

  • No one cried, no one ran away or uttered a lamentation, though their hearts were very heavy as they sent loving messages to Father, rem - embering, as they spoke that it might be too late to deliver them.

    Little Women 1921

  • Is there not the fervid, the burning of intensity of feeling in the ray’s glowing into or embering back?

    March « 2009 « Alex McLean 2009

  • Is there not the fervid, the burning of intensity of feeling in the ray’s glowing into or embering back?

    Mary Hallock-Greenewalt « Alex McLean 2009

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