balefire

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Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun.

From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by Howells, William Dean

Nay, even such a birth hath Venus of her own, a second Paris, another balefire for Troy towers reborn.'

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The balefire smouldered in his eye, And still he muttered, hurtling by, "Excelsior!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various

It was Hildeburh’s hest, at Hnaef’s own pyre the bairn of her body on brands to lay, his bones to burn, on the balefire placed, at his uncle’s side.

From Beowulf by Gummere, Francis Barton