smouldering vs white-hot

smouldering

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

noun
  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

white-hot

adj
  • Blazing. 

  • Hot enough to glow with a bright white light. 

  • Extremely fervid or zealous. 

How often have the words smouldering and white-hot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )