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

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

"Can one see him?" demanded a rough fellow, dashing a flambeau close to the guardsman's face.

From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks

Its monuments and statues, where they were complacently innocent of art, had been brought into harmony of tone by the atmosphere vivid like the flambeau trees, the inconceivable blueness of its sea.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

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

Many of the inhabitants carry lighted branches and flambeaus; and rockets, squibs, etc., are discharged on the joyful occasion.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend

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

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

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

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

Two big footmen with flambeaux and tall candles escorted him to his carriage.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

The door was that of a hall in the middle of which was erected a tribunal lighted by a number of flambeaux.

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue