live coals
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He wheeled a Weber grill into the alley for some unsanctioned cooking over live coals.
From New York Times • May 28, 2021
The terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She set them in a pit in the middle of the fire and heaped live coals around the balled mound of mud.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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