flambeau

He and friends played hide-and-seek in nearby brush but never saw the flambeau lit.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

And lit me with her pine-knot torch to bedward, Where, as the custom of the court it was, The beauteous Wolf-head blew the flambeau out, And then— Alice.

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Montrose Jonas Moses

Here an old man presented himself who officiated as an experienced guide, furnished with a lantern and great flambeau made of ropes impregnated with some kind of resin.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

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 Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 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

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

Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus; and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the joyful occasion.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend

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

On came the mass of hunters with flambeaus, closing in, shrieking and shouting, driving the whole body of elephants before them.

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse

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

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

At that moment the two flambeaux, as if to proclaim their owner's withdrawal from the claims of society, simultaneously collapsed and strewed Mr. Ripple's fair white steps with ashes.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

The morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells, and in the evening a procession took place, by the light of flambeaux, to the number of some thousands.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown