Firemen are using the squirt guns to shoot the burning fire and villagers are using branches, buckets, scoops and hoes to put out the smouldering fire.
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the 1 smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden in the dregs of it.
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