balefire
Example Sentences
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It was Hildeburh’s hest, at Hnaef’s own pyre the bairn of her body on brands to lay, his bones to burn, on the balefire placed, at his uncle’s side.
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
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
"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 Neil Munro
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
