flambeau

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High and low the serfs looked out, red the flambeaus tossed about,— Toll slowly.

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It was a striking scene in the otherwise perfect darkness of the streets, the torch-bearers at the sides waving their flambeaux regularly over their heads, and shouting with the rest in chorus.

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The chaste and beautiful design of this portal, even to the inverted flambeaux, is a counterpart of that of the Old Granary ground at Boston.

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To carry out my Lord Glandore's conceit, however, it was necessary to provide flambeaux.

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The gold and silver plate was very handsome, particularly the massive flambeaux and high ornaments for the middle of the table.

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