flambeau

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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 Hergesheimer, Joseph

And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

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 Moses, Montrose Jonas

With the bride to the bridal apartment they go, Fair Kirstin in front bears the yellow flambeau.

From Child Maidelvold and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry

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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It was dimly lighted by representations of flambeaus, stuck at angles in the walls.

From Man of Many Minds by Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)

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 Pearse, Alfred

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

Night closed in, and the flambeaux of the pages lighted up the mourning procession.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

A hundred thousand flambeaux, inclosed in rich crystal cylinders, illuminated the gardens and the dining-hall.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by