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Definition of Smoulders
1. smoulder [v] - See also: smoulder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoulders
Literary usage of Smoulders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punjab Plants: Comprising Botanical and Vernacular Names, and Uses of Most by John Lindsay Stewart (1869)
"... worst the Railway get, as it smoulders, and has no body for burning alone even
if thoroughly dried. But, mixed with deodar and pine scrap-wood, ..."
2. Love's Testament: A Sonnet Sequence by Grace Constant Lounsbery (1906)
"... THE passion of the savage smoulders still Beneath the cloak and armour of our
age ; We are but cowards, whom the blindest rage Leaves impotent and ..."
3. The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support (1859)
"And yet, how, as it smoulders, it gives some evidence of life. The smoking flax
does not break forth into a lively flame, but it smoulders. ..."
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