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
At the same time, taking a flambeau in his hand, he hastily led the way on board his own ship, and set it on fire.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
Still another white beacon leaned over the hills where, like a stellar flambeau, the lead-star trembled and sputtered, kindled just on the apex of Henhawk's knob.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
But as some one has said, “Death lights up a terrible flambeau in which the aspect of all things is changed.”
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
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 Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
They came down here with torches and flambeaus and saw the darkness only, while the light came out to meet us, seeing we had none….
From Pélléas and Mélisande by Richard Hovey
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
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
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