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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Adjective
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1. covered in cinders
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=November 19, 1993 | author=Lee Sandlin | title=The American Scheme | work=Chicago Reader | url=https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1993/931119/DAD1
|passage=A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through
the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing
on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old CINDERY
roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared
hillsides.}}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1986 |author=w:John le Carré |title=w:A Perfect Spy |section=
|passage= The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's
windmills to a standstill against the CINDERY Flemish sky.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1913 | author=Charles Darwin | title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3704
|passage=Even the form of a crater can but rarely be discovered on the summits
of the many red CINDERY hills; yet the more recent streams can be
distinguished on the coast, forming lines of cliffs of less height, but
stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series: the height of
the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1884 | author=John Addington Symonds | title=New Italian sketches | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24689
|passage=The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of
Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and CINDERY deluges.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1880 | author=Charles Dickens | title=The Letters of Charles Dickens | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25852
|passage=There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such
sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through
his CINDERY bloom to have thought of.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1873 | author=Various | title=Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14691
|passage=All at once a shriek or yell of "Hard aport!" and a great iron
outward-bound steamer from Hong-Kong bursts into the unwieldy Chinaman, goes
crunching through her like ripping pasteboard; tears her open; snarls through
steamy nostrils and CINDERY fiery mouth, and growls over her wreck.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1866 | author=Herman Melville | title=Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12384
|passage=The wagon mired and cannon dragged Have trenched their scar; the
plain Tramped like the CINDERY beach of the damned-- A site for the city of
Cain.}}
**** Synonyms
- [en]