flambeau

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

The burning flambeau on the knoll served as a guide, and, after one or two pauses, owing to the treacherous footing, the elder brother succeeded in carrying the other thither.

From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

One way of representing this goddess, it is said, was in the habit of a matron, holding in her right hand a flambeau or lamp, and sometimes a Palladium or small Victory.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous

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

Here an old man presented himself who officiated as an experienced guide, furnished with a lantern and great flambeau made of ropes impregnated with some kind of resin.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

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

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

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

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

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

Ten thousand strong, the blazing flambeaux had marched and countermarched along the city's main thoroughfares, and Harry had reviewed them from the balcony of the hotel which was the party's rendezvous.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

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