Then if we were to dry a slice of apple, it would shrink down into a little leathery shaving; and this, when thrown into the fire, would burn with a smudgy kind of flame, give off very little heat, and soon smoulder away.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
His flare of anger flickered down to a sullen smoulder; it seemed to lack fuel.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
She then described to him her youthful longing, which the consumptive master had awakened in her, the longing which had continued to smoulder amidst the ashes of her life's experience.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann