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
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
There was a house-heating up beside Preston, with feasting and dancing; and a great light, like that of a flambeau, proceeded from the onstead.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
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
—The princes applaud with a furious joy: 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 The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes 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
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
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 In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
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
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
Servants held up lighted flambeaux on either side, and the old butler, with hair as white as the harper's, presented a goblet of wine.
From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) by Margracia Loudon
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