embers

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• Just grab a dead cracked cap polypore, get one edge of the shelf fungus smoldering with a coal from your fire, and carry it for an hour or two in a fireproof container to transport the live ember to your new campfire location.

• Place the pieces close together, eliminating gaps that would drop your embers down into the snow.

• When the Khoisan hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa gazed upon the meandering trail of stars and dust that split the night sky, they saw the embers of a campfire.

• Just defining the fire dynamics of embers alone is a huge task.

• Another about mulch that lets embers smolder until a wind whips them into “open flames that creep right up to people’s house walls.”

• One night, driving home, I passed an alley and saw someone light a crack pipe, the tiny red ember flaring bright.

• If just a single ember remains hot at its core, Olshanski notes, the result can be an inferno.

• Fire was actually carried in hollowed out branches in which an ember was placed.

• I understood, and, stepping to the fire, returned with a charred ember.

• The other snatched a blazing ember from the mud chimney and struck the leading wolf dead partly within the hut.

• When he ceased silence reigned, except for the occasional snapping of a burning ember.

• It grew and expanded till it formed a huge ember-mottled orchid with vast petals trembling in the wind.

• Darius lay as I had last seen him; and him we buried in the maize clearing at the back, with the ember glow for funeral lights.