balefire

Example Sentences

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"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

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

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

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

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