balefire
Example Sentences
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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.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
"Ay, ay!" he said in the English, after a pause that kept the room more intent on his face than on the balefire.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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
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 Gummere, Francis Barton
Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.
From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
