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
After another rain the bare flambeau trees would burst into fiery bloom.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
There was a house-heating up beside Preston, with feasting and dancing; and a great light, like that of a flambeau, proceeded from the onstead.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
His was a weird figure, standing in the centre of the circle of uncertain light shed by the flambeau, watching eagerly, and waving his signals with untiring energy.
From The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
The worst of it is, by the light of this great modern flambeau which they had been unable to extinguish, they saw their own deformity.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
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
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
It was dimly lighted by representations of flambeaus, stuck at angles in the walls.
From Man of Many Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
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
When William III. came to see the City and the Lord Mayor's Show in 1689, the City militia, holding lighted flambeaux, lined Fleet Street as far as Temple Bar.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Down the avenue beyond the great gate, the flambeaux clustered and faded and diminished, the band music had throbbed to silence and about them was only the silver, dew-silent night.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
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