It was empty, and only dull coals were left of the fire.

The fire in Captain Waxmans voice burned down to dull coals.

A sudden wind blazed the dull coals of the fire back to light, and Hal gaped in astonishment at his attacker.

Straight overhead was a big blue giant that looked like a flashing jewel and a little to one side was a dull coal of a star, a red supergiant, perhaps.

The coalfield's 75-billion tons are in 11 zones, which consist of bright coal with interbedded shale and dull coal, sandstone and carbonaceous shale.

Cat watched happily as the coal-fired barges slowly nosed their way through the darkness, a single lantern burning on their sterns, glowing like dull coals on the night.

He did not think of himself as an imaginative man - at least not outside the pages of the books he had had a vital part in creating - nor an emotional one, so he was a little startled by the dull coal of rage and resentment he felt smouldering in his gut.