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 the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

The worst of it is, by the light of this great modern flambeau which they had been unable to extinguish, they saw their own deformity.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules

“Maybe ’twill paint the blues in old Tory Cave, if we run across them there,” put in Tomoke, maiden of the flambeau and the fire-talk.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine

Still another white beacon leaned over the hills where, like a stellar flambeau, the lead-star trembled and sputtered, kindled just on the apex of Henhawk's knob.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett