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"At least I went over like one," said I, sending the only clouds into the blue, and chiefly wishing for their longer endurance. I was as hot as a cinder from my head to one foot; the other leg was ceasing to belong to me. "Wait a bit," says Raffles, puckering; "there's a gray felt hat at deep long-on, and I want to add it to the bag for vengeance.... Wait yes no, no luck!
Then, noticing the lapse, he dragged them out. "Sweets," said he. "Anything else?" "Sweets and things." "Oh!" said Mr. Povey. "Well, now you can go down into the cinder- cellar and bring up here all the things there are in that little box in the corner. Off you go!" And off went Cyril. He had to swagger through the kitchen. "What did I tell you, Master Cyril?" Amy unwisely asked of him.
Small particles of dust or cinder may be removed without the aid of the physician, by exercising proper care. First let the tears, if possible, wash the offending substance to the corner of the eye, or edge of the lid, where it can be removed with a soft cloth.
"That Scotchman that went out on the last car," put in a voice, "told me that they hit him in the ear with a cinder." A small, nervous laugh accompanied this. "One of those fellows on the Fifth Avenue line must have had a hell of a time, according to the papers," drawled another. "They broke his car windows and pulled him off into the street 'fore the police could stop 'em."
"It's lucky if she isn't smashed to matchwood," groaned Tom, and almost immediately left the Pullman coach on the run. Ned was not far behind him. When they reached the cinder path beside the freight train it was just sunrise. Long arms of rosy light reached down the mountain side to linger on the tracks and what was strewed across them.
The extensive cinder heaps found in the Forest of Dean which formed the readiest resource of the modern iron-smelter when improved processes enabled him to reduce them show that their principal iron manufactures were carried on in that quarter.
But mess was the only name which could be given to what poured out on the top of the stove as her fingers went crashing through the shell and into the slimy feeling contents. The broken yolk dripped from her hands, and in the one instant she stood holding them out from her in disgust, all the rest of the egg which had gone sliding over the stove, cooked, scorched and turned to a cinder.
These fragments, as they fall back to the earth, collect about the opening and in time build up the volcano, or cinder cone, as such a mountain is frequently called. The finer particles, which have the appearance of dark sand, fall farther away and form a layer over the surface for some miles upon every side.
"What happened.... What hap ...?" the man began. "Wrecked. We've had it. We're abandoning ship. Get into that cubby over there, shut the door tight behind you, and stay there!" "But can't I do something to help?" "Without a suit and not knowing how to use one? You'd get burned to a cinder. Get in there and jump!" The oldster jumped and Deston turned to his wife. "Stay here at the port, Bobby.
'The cinder wench is not here, said the Prince at last; 'go and fetch her, and let her try on the things. So the girl was fetched, and the Prince was just going to hand the ornaments to her, when the witch held him back, saying: 'Don't give them to her; she soils everything with cinders; give them to my daughter rather.
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