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
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
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 Gummere, Francis Barton
This word was the last which the wise old man harbored in heart ere hot death-waves of balefire he chose.
From Beowulf by Gummere, Francis Barton
"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
