flambeau

Example Sentences

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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 Michelet, Jules

One light--the single flambeau which had escaped extinguishing--threw a ghastly glare on the surge of scowling ruffians.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

The candle-gleam of science; the flambeau of the lover; the constellated nebulæ of the poet.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert