Hals's expression was bland, but tiny embers of rebellion glowed in her eyes.

She groped on the floor but couldn't find it; not even a tiny ember remained to guide her.

Little warmth came from within it, but there was almost always a tiny ember smoldering in the deep, flaky ash.

Seeds sent tiny embers aloft as they popped, leaping ahead of the main fire.

Dloan closed the grip again, turned and fired the gun into the needle litter at his feet; a tiny, continuous red ember burned.

That spark, that tiny ember of near-life, seemed to grow even as he touched it.

It looked like tiny embers had crawled through it in pursuit of fleas.

She stared at the tiny ember of gold in my father's palm.

His eyes lifted from the tiny ember to Nicholas's face.

Sure enough, a tiny, glowing ember had appeared in the pile of joyweed.