balefire

Example Sentences

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Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the king is dead.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The balefire smouldered in his eye, And still he muttered, hurtling by, "Excelsior!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various

From Aeschere old, loyal councillor, life was gone; nor might they e’en, when morning broke, those Danish people, their death-done comrade burn with brands, on balefire lay the man they mourned.

From Beowulf by Gummere, Francis Barton

This word was the last which the wise old man harbored in heart ere hot death-waves of balefire he chose.

From Beowulf by Gummere, Francis Barton

"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 Munro, Neil