flambeau
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He and friends played hide-and-seek in nearby brush but never saw the flambeau lit.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
—The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy!
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
One light--the single flambeau which had escaped extinguishing--threw a ghastly glare on the surge of scowling ruffians.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
It was a weird and curious picture presented by the group on the pier,—the blazing, flickering flambeau casting flashes upon the many faces, and all surrounded by deep shadows and darkness.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
And he went on tiptoe to the door of the weaving room, unlocked it, and looked in, holding his flambeau high above his head.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
On Tuesday night, authorities lit flambeaus to keep wild animals away, an official involved in the operation told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
High and low the serfs looked out, red the flambeaus tossed about,— Toll slowly.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
High and low the serfs looked out, red the flambeaus tossed about— Toll slowly.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They came down here with torches and flambeaus and saw the darkness only, while the light came out to meet us, seeing we had none….
From Pélléas and Mélisande by Richard Hovey
Hast thou not seen, sweeping so far and high, The meteors, midnight flambeaus of the sky, How after them they draw long trails of flame Wherever Nature gives a thoroughfare?
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Often, when the Queen was entertaining distinguished company under the flambeaux of the Great Hall, Lancelot had found him sitting by himself in a small room, mending stockings.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
In the light of the flambeaux at the banquet-hall door Richard saw Dunn, and hastened to join him.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy
The gold and silver plate was very handsome, particularly the massive flambeaux and high ornaments for the middle of the table.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
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