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

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

En sa tombe repose honneur et courtoisie, Et la jeune beauté qu'en l'ame je sentois, Et le flambeau d'Amour, ses traits et son carquois, Et ensemble mon cœur, mes pensées et ma vie.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

And when another day had gone, and night came again, a silent funeral passed, by the light of a flambeau, to the chapel of the Ursulines for the lonely obsequies.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon

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 Hubbard, Elbert