flambeau

Example Sentences

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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

And he went on tiptoe to the door of the weaving room, unlocked it, and looked in, holding his flambeau high above his head.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But as some one has said, “Death lights up a terrible flambeau in which the aspect of all things is changed.”

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot

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 Wood, Charles W. (William)

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