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
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
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
“Maybe ’twill paint the blues in old Tory Cave, if we run across them there,” put in Tomoke, maiden of the flambeau and the fire-talk.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
It was a weird and curious picture presented by the group on the pier,—the blazing, flickering flambeau casting flashes upon the many faces, and all surrounded by deep shadows and darkness.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
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
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
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
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
Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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 chaste and beautiful design of this portal, even to the inverted flambeaux, is a counterpart of that of the Old Granary ground at Boston.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
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