balefire
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
