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Definition of Smoldered
1. smolder [v] - See also: smolder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoldered
Literary usage of Smoldered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1868)
"... and there it smoldered rather than blazed; for "•*• Hannibal with his single
army could do no more than maintain his ground in Bruttium. ..."
2. Indian Legends of Minnesota by Cordenio A. Severance (1893)
"Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either smoldered
still the baneful embers— Fires of jealousy and hatred— Like a camp-fire ..."
3. Indian Legends & Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon (1910)
"Friends they seemed in word and action, But within the breast of either smoldered
still the baneful embers— Fires of jealousy and hatred— Like a camp-fire ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"A tiny fire smoldered near an open camp. On this the man tossed a handful ...
George Pollock's blue eyes smoldered with anger. "I'll sure tan that promising ..."
5. California Redwood Park, Sometimes Called Sempervirens Park: An Appreciation by Arthur Adelbert Taylor (1912)
"It smoldered silently for weeks and then when it reached a knot hole left by a
... Again the fire smoldered for weeks, and again it burst forth at the faint ..."
6. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"War muttered and smoldered, all over the east of Europe, and presently broke out
fiercely between Greece and the Turks in Asia Minor. ..."
7. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
""But I know I am not a coward," I remonstrated to an accusation he had not voiced
but which smoldered in his purple eyes. "And you know it, too, you! ..."
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