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 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 Bird, Robert Montgomery

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

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 Woolson, Constance Fenimore

"Old age having laid his hand upon this truly great man, this truly philosophical politician, at his expiring flambeau I lighted my taper."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel