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- not comparableSmoking; giving off steam or fog.
With the fall of dark the woman left him sitting gloomily asmoke on his soap-box before the fire, and went up into the van.
1934, Maurice Walsh, The Road to Nowhere, London: W. & R. Chambers, Part 3, Chapter 33 more examples
It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke.
1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare […] Touching Dear-Steeling, London: Saunders and Otley, page 63[…] there was a smooth and shining lake, the chill waters whereof were all asmoke in the gentle warmth of the newly risen sun.
1907, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Lancelot and His Companions, New York: Scribner, Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 312The shrines of its gods and heroes, their altars asmoke with incense offerings, had watched over commerce and statecraft, lords and ladies, workmen and peasant farmers alike, in long and pleasant prosperity.
1995, C. J. Cherryh, chapter 1, in Fortress in the Eye of Time, New York: HarperPrism, page 1
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