"trace of fire" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a remnant or indication of a fire, often implying that the fire has been extinguished or is no longer burning. Example: The firemen found a trace of fire in the ashes, indicating that there had been a small blaze in the abandoned house.
The bed was made, the blankets smoothed, no trace of fire in here, although there was more soot along the far wall.
His delivery – warm and buoyant, without a trace of fire and brimstone despite the sharply conservative message – was a reminder of why Mr. Santorum remains a force in Republican circles though he has been out of the Senate since Pennsylvanians voted him out in 2006.
And traces of fire are easily wiped out, so the lack of direct evidence for them is no surprise.
Brusov added that he had inspected the Knights' Hall on June 5 1945 and found "traces of fire, ash heaps and ash covering the entire floor", and also "small pieces of burned wooden strips and parts of cases and some parts of mouldings and copper hinges from the doors, which were taken by Germans from Pushkin and moved to Königsberg along with the Amber Room".
Even residents who supported the uprising appeared dejected about the damage to the city, where traces of fire and ash littered the old city and smoke lingered from a blaze the day before in the paint and chemical supply shops of Bab al-Nasr.
There are, however, Norway spruce sites, with a high permanent water table and with tall herb vegetation without traces of fire.
However, no corpses or traces of fire were found, implying that Romanovich took the towns' inhabitants to his own principality.
9. Being away from things... "does not make us forget them, but instead, love them even more," said Federico Ezequiel Gargiulo in his book Traces of Fire: Tales of an Expedition to the End of the Earth.
At the site, excavators had previously uncovered other traces of fire (scattered deposits of ash and clumps of soil that had been heated to high temperatures) as well as the butchered bones of big game like deer, aurochs and horse left their by the prehistoric cave dwellers, possibly up to 400,000 years ago.
The study, led by Belgium-based scientist Sophie Verheyden, cites, "The regular geometry of the stalagmite circles, the arrangement of broken stalagmites, and several traces of fire," as well as their location over 1,000' into the cave to suggest mastery of the environment, "which can be considered a major step in human modernity".
One still floated after 3,000 years and one has traces of fires lit on the wide flat deck on which the catch was evidently cooked.
