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  • Authorities suspected the stolen cross had been used in the hate crime and showed Ouimette the half-charred, dismembered pieces of wood.

    FBI eyes cross-burning in prosperous U.S. town 2011

  • Black-streaked walls were framed by thickly smeared lines where wood shutters had once rested, while half-charred timbers stuck up from the snow like giant bones.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Black-streaked walls were framed by thickly smeared lines where wood shutters had once rested, while half-charred timbers stuck up from the snow like giant bones.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Black-streaked walls were framed by thickly smeared lines where wood shutters had once rested, while half-charred timbers stuck up from the snow like giant bones.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

  • On the largest of the oaks, one of the great branches was sheared half away from the trunk, half-charred by the lightning strike that had done it, exposing the heartwood to insect damage and frost-kill.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Black-streaked walls were framed by thickly smeared lines where wood shutters had once rested, while half-charred timbers stuck up from the snow like giant bones.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • It took only a couple of fire arrows and pretty soon some tribe of Reds would have themselves a string of half-charred scalps to sell to the French in Detroit.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • Ice looked back to MacKinnett and his half-charred form.

    Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009

  • At its centre is a deeply grained, half-charred oblong of Columbian pine suggestive of a human figure crowned with torn shreds of blue and yellow plywood like feathers.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Ice looked back to MacKinnett and his half-charred form.

    Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009

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