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
We were conducted back to our rooms by quite a procession, including the thin landlord and imposing landlady, headed by the Dragon bearing a flambeau.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
Bobby, under the flambeau of red hair, dreamed at the fish.
From What Rough Beast? by Jefferson Highe
Then they went off in a procession of two, the landlord carrying the flambeau.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
On either side of Mr. Darrel's horse marched a lacquey bearing a flambeau, and the marshal's page was in attendance with his master's cloak.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
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
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
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
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
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
The sword was gilded, and shone bright, in the light of the flambeaux, above the duke's head.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
To carry out my Lord Glandore's conceit, however, it was necessary to provide flambeaux.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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