| Suddenly history smouldered, warmed up, caught fire and burned into my consciousness. |
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| His reading light fell onto his mattress the other night and smouldered a hole through it. |
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| Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell. |
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| Things that even in better writing only smouldered, flare up here in full force. |
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| This tendency may help explain why outbreaks in some rural areas have smouldered undetected for months. |
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| The argument smouldered for years, mostly in the messes, although occasionally someone actually sat down to write a memo about it. |
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| She smouldered in a floor length gem-encrusted crimson gown and Tango-coloured mohair evening wrap, while the model modelled the flimsiest of fur halter tops. |
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| All time long, a rebel spirit has smouldered in this region. It belonged to the English crown as duchy of Guyenne. |
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| Despite these efforts and the relative setback of 15 December, in Milan, the fire still smouldered. |
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| Doreen Ghiloni, 82, used it as a hot water bottle but it smouldered, filling her home with smoke. |
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| The fire smouldered for some time before its discovery by neighbours. |
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| Despite Bland's success in remedying one of the worst features of Roche's term of office by providing the staff with a unity of direction, one serious staff problem smouldered during his tenure. |
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| They gathered in 40-odd countries on May 21st, marking the massacres of, they say, a million or more in 1864. The rallies marked a new high point after decades in which the cause smouldered in a scattered diaspora. |
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| But having smouldered at Rotherham Denbee and Bees burst phosphorescently into life last Sunday with an offloading, hard running style the visitors simply could not contain. |
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