Sorely to his disappointment, therefore, he felt himself compelled to abandon the Kingston scheme, and forego the pleasure of making a bonfire of the splendid steamer that had fallen into his hands.
On board the Alabama the former was the favorite supposition, and hopes ran high of another glorious bonfirefed by tons of brightly burning sperm oil.
So, instead of a big bonfire and their blankets, the men at a moment's notice had to face a long night journey in open trucks, with the inspiring prospect of a severe fight at that journey's end.
M191) The Sardinian practice of making merry round a great bonfire on St. John's Eve is an instance of a custom which has been practised at the midsummer festival from time immemorial in many parts of Europe.
The instances which I have cited in other parts of this work seem to indicate a connexion of the midsummer bonfire with vegetation.
Here a great bonfire is kindled, round which they dance and make merry.
At Ciotat in Provence, while the midsummer bonfire blazed, young people used to plunge into the sea and splash each other vigorously.
This roused the Boches and they cleared the bonfire stokers away and proceeded to trample out the flames, amid the laughter of all the prisoners.
The alarm was sounded on a bugle, and yet another small army of soldiers arrived on the scene, but they did not tackle the largestbonfire which burnt merrily on undisturbed.
The native village was some ten miles to the north, and all the way up hill, so that before we came in sight of it darkness had fallen, and in the light of a bonfire the dancers were assembling.
My afternoons were given over to walking or riding with her, and our evenings were spent in long and quiet excursions on the river or sitting with the artists in the light of a bonfire on the edge of the bluff, talking and singing.
A wild, barbaric chant arose near the bonfire behind them.
They had built a bonfire near the speaker's stand, and by its flare Harley clearly saw old Flying Cloud smile.
We were just wishing some one was here to make a bonfire of this debris for us," said Catherine cheerfully, "but never mind.
The man from Henderson's did some lifting very willingly, rescued what was left of the water Bertha was tugging from the park, lighted the stove and even stayed to poke the bonfire he made for them in the street, and keep it from spreading.
Under his direction the pulpit and the benches of the hearers were torn up, and a bonfire of wood and Bibles was speedily lighted, to the great delight of the populace of Paris.
Spire Niquet, a poor bookbinder, whose scanty earnings barely sufficed to support the wants of his seven children, was half-roasted in a bonfire made of his own books, and then dragged to the river and drowned.
From the bonfire in the woods and Sam's recital from the stump, the three friends emerged again upon the road, and a belated farmer driving home half asleep on the seat of his wagon caught their attention.
Footnote 54: The bonfire is made of fences, door posts, furniture, etc.
In some parts of the country the bonfire of the Hol[=i] is made about a tree, to which offerings are made, and afterwards the whole is set on fire.
For this reason thebonfire is made before a temple of Çiva.
In my boyhood I have often leaped over a bonfire in a part of the State of Virginia mainly settled by Scotch families, with whom probably the custom migrated thither.
Mousie was much pleased with the promise that the bonfire should not be lighted until some still, mild day when she could go out and stand with me beside it.
Our bonfire ended in a feast, and then the ashes were spread far and wide.
At the prospect of the bonfire the younger children set up shouts of exultation, which cheered me on as I turned over the soil with the fork, although often stopping to rest.
Nothing greater than a bonfire was in prospect, yet few costly pleasures could have afforded them such excitement.
We'll plant only half a dozen rows of these dwarf peas this morning, and then this afternoon we'll have the bonfire and get ready for Mr. Jones's plow.
A bonfire was kindled on the twenty-eighth of June, and on the next day the maidens chose one of their number to play the part of Kostroma.
Afterwards a bonfire is lit, and the young men and maidens jump over it in couples, carrying the figure with them.
Here a bonfire was kindled, and round it the priest led a wild dance to the same droning music.
Round it, completely hiding the bonfire itself, were hosts of dark figures swarming to approach it--all with a purpose.
She stretched her arms, smiled faintly, and walked quietly back to the dancers, who presently withdrew in a double line as they had come, leaving the space between us and the bonfire deserted.
It was a very blowy morning, though the rain kept off, and what part of the bonfire had been built already was found scattered to the winds.
By the time the topmost barrel was on the bonfire there was a great smell of whiskey in the quarry, it being a confined place.
They crept slowly and cautiously forward until the flames of the bonfirewere visible through the screen of leaves, until the faces of the officers about the bonfire could be read.
The volley flashed out, the smoke cleared away, and showed a little heap of men silent between the bonfire and the Prussian ranks.
They were to join him high up on the slope, and opposite to the bonfire which would be burning at the répli.
The kindling of this bonfire was the well known signal for the populace of Boston to assemble in the street.
Before the tar-barrels, of which the bonfire was made, were half burnt out, a great crowd had come together.
An immense crowd is gathered about the harbour, that is lighted by a bonfire made of vine twigs and barrels of tar.
On 14 March Montségur was taken, and over two hundred heretics found in it were thrown alive into a huge bonfire that had been erected, and burnt alive to satisfy the implacable vengeance of the Papacy.
They made a bonfirein the evening, and about ten o’clock I left them as happy and merry a set of colliers as ever existed.
I hope no vessel will mistake your bonfire for a beacon," said Fritz, as the darkness increased.
There's no fear, however, of this bonfire doing as much mischief as the last, old fellow!
I do hope that the bonfire did not lead to their misfortune," said Eric presently.
He had made a splendid bonfire on the edge of the brook, and Mr. March and he had been sitting there for an hour, on a buffalo robe spread on the ground.
Here a broad glare against the window interrupted him, and, looking out, his auditors saw a bonfire blazing with peculiar splendor under the windows of the chamber where the Faculty were at that moment in solemn session.
The prudent officers therefore kept their distance, busying themselves with noting down the names of several innocent spectators, while the bonfire subsided to a natural death, the gunpowder hoax having perfectly succeeded.
Was it not La Souleiade that was burning down, set on fire by the bonfiremade with his papers?
I would make a famous bonfire with all the insults to the good God which it contains!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bonfire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: backfire; beacon; blaze; combustion; conflagration; fire; flame; flicker; ignition; ingle; pyre
