This pit is used to catch cinders from the locomotives as their ash pans are cleaned before and after service. |
They emerge from the cinders to feed and mate when the sun has warmed the rock surfaces, particularly at the margins of snow fields. |
The wrong kind of jet fuel had been put into the tanks and if we'd tried to take off, we would have been cinders. |
The Sun will become a red giant, still hot enough to burn planets to cinders as it engulfs Mercury and Venus and scorches Earth. |
Coarse, clean sand and small sifted cinders placed round the bulbs should ward off attacks. |
The flaxseed remedy is for 'Dust and Cinders in the Eye,' on the line above. |