When his ministry began its fires were slowly dying down, though the embers still glowed.
The wax is often heated in a little pot, resting in hot embers.
He felt as if he had swallowed the contents of an ashbin while embers still lived.
After burning for twenty-four hours the smouldering embers were extinguished with libations of wine.
I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.
