flambeau

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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 either side of Mr. Darrel's horse marched a lacquey bearing a flambeau, and the marshal's page was in attendance with his master's cloak.

From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

With the bride to the bridal apartment they go, Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau.

From Child Maidelvold and other ballads by George Henry Borrow

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

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

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

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

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

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott

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

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

They are perfectly dark, the only means of exploring them being by the use of flambeaux; but to what length they extend has never been discovered.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous