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There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room with a bed upon it and a coverlet. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

In ugly angles and sharp, unreasonable bends it zigzagged down the shoulder of the great cinderous mountain.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William

These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out—a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long.

From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens, Charles

A worthy companion portrait to that of cinderous Mr. Toodles, the stoker, familiar to the readers of Dombey.

From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster