balefire

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Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more.

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

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

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Up to the window the company crowded, and they could see the balefire blazing hotly against the cool light of the moon and the widely sprinkled stars.

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

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