balefire
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Nay, even such a birth hath Venus of her own, a second Paris, another balefire for Troy towers reborn.'
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Up to the window the company crowded, and they could see the balefire blazing hotly against the cool light of the moon and the widely sprinkled stars.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
"Ay, ay!" he said in the English, after a pause that kept the room more intent on his face than on the balefire.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.
From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
It was Hildeburh’s hest, at Hnaef’s own pyre the bairn of her body on brands to lay, his bones to burn, on the balefire placed, at his uncle’s side.
From Beowulf by Francis Barton Gummere
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