low-smouldering

Updated: January 22, 2026

There were three pyres, low-smouldering, close by the river-bank, and men stirred with long poles among the ashes to make sure that the incineration started the evening before should be complete; there was one pyre that looked as though it had been lit long after dawn another newly lit and there were two pyres building.

Talbot Mundy - Rung Ho!