flambeau

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

He then spoke to the youngest, who immediately got a flambeau, and prepared to go, having first asked the elder wife to accompany her.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

But as some one has said, “Death lights up a terrible flambeau in which the aspect of all things is changed.”

From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell

The page took up a little taper that lay near the flambeau, and, shuddering as he passed by the body, instantly departed on his errand.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

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

Scarcely had we left the village when the flambeaus were extinguished, and we were left in almost total darkness.

From The Life of George Borrow by Herbert George Jenkins

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

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

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

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