balefire
Example Sentences
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A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
The wise old man spake much in his sorrow, and sent you greetings and bade that ye build, when he breathed no more, on the place of his balefire a barrow high, memorial mighty.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.
From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
This word was the last which the wise old man harbored in heart ere hot death-waves of balefire he chose.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
From Aeschere old, loyal councillor, life was gone; nor might they e’en, when morning broke, those Danish people, their death-done comrade burn with brands, on balefire lay the man they mourned.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
