balefire
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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 Neil Munro
Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.
From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
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
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
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