bed of coals

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After a final reverence, they carried the icons in procession through the small garden onto the street where a bed of coals glowed.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

After making a burning hot bed of coals that produce intermittently flickering flames, Schemm grabs the long bone handles sticking out of the rib eyes and tosses them into the belly of the BGE.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2020

I marinate it, I get a good bed of coals going, I blow off the ash and I plop that stuff right down on the coals.You can also do that with a flank steak.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2020

In the final work, a new sculpture whose sketchbook drawings date back as far as 2001, scores of cobalt blue bottles rest on a metal cot over a bed of coals.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2019

The flame birds waited, like a bed of coals, glowing on the cool smooth sands.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury