His lungs still worked; he had not been burned to a cinder after all.

One beam from the gun and he would be burned to a cinder.

Sheila felt as if her soul had been burned to a cinder.

Thank God my car had burned to a cinder.

The second one got burned to a cinder against another white wizard."

To make sure that no more harm could be done, Mercy's heart was burned to a cinder.

Burned to a cinder, he was; they only just identified the body.'

Saundra had been warned that if he came her face would be burned to a cinder.

If it wasn't for my granddaughter coming to get me I'd have burned to a cinder."

He didn't deserve to die this way, burned to a cinder by the rays of the sun.

He had seen better drivers than himself burned to a cinder in a heap of crumpled, twisted metal.

The body was burned to a cinder.

One has only to travel through our mountainous regions in order to see such trees already burned to a cinder before the arrival of autumn.

You'd get burned to a cinder.

And if we do, you're mashed into ground beef and burned to a cinder anyway, so what's to worry about?"

The home place burned to a cinder, but the bunkhouse still stands; so does the stable and the cook-shack next door to it.

Boat after boat burned to a cinder.

As for Logain, it would have taken all his strength simply to keep from being burned to a cinder, with nothing left for doing anything.

It burned to a cinder eons ago."

"Better sticky than burned to a cinder," was Menicucci's parting shot as he returned to his boiler.

Whatever small hope we might have had of keeping him away from Washington during this crisis was burned to a cinder by the Wallace-Ehrlichman show.

They figure (wrongly) that Kurtz is dead and the station burned to a cinder by hostile Africans.

His mind replayed visions of his slaughtered team, most burned to a cinder, brought out one by one by the firemen.

'Burned to a cinder as surely as if a thunderbolt had come out of the blue and incinerated her.'

A ship this size couldn't vanish without a trace for nearly a year and then pop up burned to a cinder in the middle of an iceberg."

The villagers believed they both died, burned to cinders by the sun."

"I thought for sure you'd been burned to cinders.

The Germans naturally, would believe he had been the pilot, burned to cinders in his own crash.

Their house was burned to cinders.

"Our house burned to cinders, the servants harried-and she!

"The probabilities are they both burned to cinders.

One flash of -a certain ray, and that crowd will be burned to cinders."

If she and Erva had remained in the chute-cavern any longer, they would have been burned to cinders.

Mr. Ligon's store was burned to cinders, destroying 7,000 books.

The sausages burst inside the oven, the potatoes burned to cinders, and my economy box of fireworks lasted less than 10 minutes.

Others burned to cinders.

You'll both be burned to cinders.'

Burned to cinders."

And that poor maidservant at Farynor's was left behind when the family escaped, and is burned to cinders, they say!

He splashed kerosene under the door and gave the two men to a count of 50 to open the door or they would be burned to cinders.

People gasped, muttered, shook their heads in pity as Katerina's tent and her every possession burned to cinders before their eyes.

He lay in Honninscrave's embrace near the base of the One Tree as if his valiant bones had been burned to cinders.

Piece by piece, it was being blown apart, burned to cinders, smashed to wreckage, and there was nothing that Kim could do about it.

At last it ceased altogether, and Curdie thought his hands must be burned to cinders if not ashes, for he did not feel them at all.

Like soldiers, firefighters see things that nobody else wants to: bodies burned to cinders, people in pain at the end of their lives, best friends dead at an early age.

If the boat Rolan prom- ised even existed, it would have a hole in it or it would have been burned to cinders.

They will be blown up or burned to cinders almost instantly, and our little playmate will put on his space suit and be taken across to the capturing vessel.

While the firebolt followed his voice, none of the armsmen were about to get close enough to attack, not when the odds were that they'd get burned to cinders.

So if they had been actually translated to a typical atmosphere about a kilometer off a real planetary surface, they would have been burned to cinders before you could hear their screams.

A third and more fundamental reason for the traveler's equanimity was that he personally did not really care whether or not the city and everyone in it might be burned to cinders.