Writing of these lights the poet Gay says: Yet who the footman's arrogance can quell Whose flambeau gilds the sashes of Pall-Mall, When in long rank a train of torches flame, To light the midnight visits of the dame.
And thrusting the flambeau into the earth, between the crevices in the pavement, he left the room abruptly.
When the charging has been effected, the flambeau is primed by inserting a quickmatch in the composition.
A Lamarre flambeau 1½ inch in diameter and 3 inches in length will burn for about thirty-five minutes.
And the king seiz'd a flambeauwith zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.
I was finally determined to relinquish the Lac du Flambeau route, by learning that the Indians of that place had dispersed, and by knowing that a considerable delay would be caused by reassembling them.
I stopped in a chamber to readjust my hair, and the Prince of Wales again held a flambeau for me.
She came for this purpose to my apartments, and took the utmost pains to set me off to the best advantage, and the Prince of Wales held the flambeau near me to light my toilet the whole time.
With extreme difficulty, and holding my flambeauin my left hand, I managed at length to reach the platform formed by the knees of the figure, and then scrambled up the breast and along the outstretched arm.
Upon the clammy brow of the unconscious man she placed her cool, soft hand; then, having felt his pulse, she seemed satisfied, and taking her flambeau went forward to one of my own tribesmen who had been injured in the breast.
I have kindled the lights of knowledge at the flambeau of prophecy, and I vowed that I would ere many moons seek vengeance.
All else was so quiet, that the flambeau carried up the steps, and the other flambeauheld at the great door, burnt as if they were in a close room of state, instead of being in the open night-air.
The spirit of rebellion is abroad; Texas already has separated from our dominions; Yucatan is endeavouring to follow the pernicious example, and California has just now lighted the flambeau of civil war.
The princes applaud with a furious joy; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.
Well, he got blown on the coast at last; and, when he could no longer carry on the game, he left the Flambeau to her fate.
In one of the secret inlets with which the Caribees abound, the Flambeau had been refitted, provisioned, and made ready for a fresh adventure.
At the turn Flambeau was running third, and slightly behind and a little wide and thus out of a possible danger zone, was the black and yellow.
That's the outfit that owns this Flambeau horse, ain't it?
This Flambeau from what I hear will carry a whole bunch of money for them Frenches.
Outside this Flambeau there ain't much to worry about," he concluded.
Last night they held a noisy flambeau procession around the Hohenstaufenplatz, knowing full well that the king had had another stroke and quiet was necessary.
Flowering vines grow over these, and in the home space is often found the poinciana regia, a crimson-flowering tree, as gorgeous in color as the flambeau growing in Durban, South Africa.
By that time the flambeau was blazing not two hundred yards ahead of us.
Yet over the middle arch was the only flambeau on London Bridge, placed there because it was the broadest of all the spans, and we dared not attempt to pass under the Bridge in the dark.
From the floor he arose, holding the flambeau in one hand, the bottle of alcohol in the other.
As I could already transmit a three-dimensional picture of an object, and as Flambeau had been able to transmit formless matter, then by combining our devices in a single apparatus I found I could transmit physical objects unchanged in form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flambeau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: brand; firebrand; flambeau; flare; flint; light; link; spill; taper; torch
