He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Some time, if I live to be an old woman, I may sit over the fire, and, looking into the embers, see the life that might have been. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
A pin occasionally dropped with the wax, and the embers heated it red as it lay. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I observed this also, and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The revived embers of an old passion glowed clearly in Wildeve now; and he leant forward as if about to put his face towards her cheek. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
By April, 1859, the last embers of the blaze had been stamped out, and the British were masters of India again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
A big bed of embers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, under an iron pot hung from an ancient crane. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
She knelt on the hearth-rug, stretching her hands to the embers. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Archer stooped over and threw a log upon the embers. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
Krook takes it, goes to the fire, stoops over the red embers, and tries to get a light. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
He carefully stirred up the embers of his lost love, but they refused to burst into a blaze. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.