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

Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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 Gummere, Francis Barton

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