balefire

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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

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

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