By night, it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them.
Yet this telegraph, performing its saving functions ever since Christ died for men on Calvary, fills not the world with exultation and shouts of gladness, with illuminations and bonfires and the booming of cannon.
On the square they fired guns, and bonfireswere lighted in the streets.
Jocyln and his daughter; and there were bonfires and illuminations, and feasting of tenantry, and ringing of bells, and general jubilation, that the heir of Thetford Towers had come to reign at last.
One of the bonfires just replenished leapt one instant lurid high, only to fall the next in a whirlwind of sparks, and cover the lake with a rush of smoke.
The idea appealed strongly to him; and he remembered that as a boy on a New Hampshire farm bonfires had ever moved him strangely.
For bonfires in the yard are strictly forbidden, and it was many years before that the last one had sent its sparks up in front of University.
Before reaching Franklin a fleet of boats rowed up to the falls to meet him, andbonfires were built along the shore in his honor.
At Camden and many other towns, bonfires were built by the enthusiastic citizens who were determined to catch sight of the hardy navigator, whether he passed by in the night or day.
Bonfires were at that time seen at long distances from each other on the African coast.
The banks were lined with people and bonfires were built at night.
When all the surrounding bonfires had burst into existence Charley kindled his, and arranged its fuel so that it should not require tending for some time.
You vanished out of sight, and then I looked round at the bonfires and came in.
Surely 'tis somewhat childish of you to stay out playing at bonfires so long, and wasting such fuel.
There had been fagot processions in High-street, and bonfires of New Testaments at Carfax.
The imperialists illuminated Rome; cannon were fired; bonfires blazed; and great bodies of men paraded the streets with shouts of "the Empire and Spain.
The news would set the bells ringing in every steeple in Axholme; there would be bonfires on every hill and mound, and feasting and merrymaking in every manor house and farm and cottage.
Should'st have ridden through the whole Isle, and set every hamlet aglow with bonfires and shouting for joy.
The unwelcome daughter was christened amidst general indifference, without either bonfires or rejoicings.
Dacre spoke for seven hours to a sympathetic court; he was unanimously acquitted, and the City of London celebrated his escape withbonfires and illuminations.
Bonfires with some older person in attendance are safe enough and prevent unlawful bonfires in dangerous places.
The city minstrels filled the air with music, and the parish clerks attended with their singing children, who sat about the bonfires and sang ballads and "other delectable and joyfull songs.
The declaration of peace was celebrated with bonfires in the city, although the conditions under which the peace was effected were generally unacceptable to the nation and brought discredit upon the earl.
Bonfires were lighted at different places, one being in Saint Paul’s Churchyard near the house where lay the foreign ambassadors.
In the evening of the same day bonfireswere lighted in the streets of the city by precept of the mayor.
Great bonfireswere lit to strengthen him, or as a ceremony of riddance; the old year was burned out.
The burning of straw figures, representing gods of fertility, on May-Day bonfires may have been a fertility rite, and perhaps explains the use of straw birth-girdles.
Be that as it may, we burned bonfires that night in Moorfields, and I had my mistress' leave to take Jeannette with me to see the sport.
London was merry-making, with bonfires and pealing of bells, when Will Peake and I entered it.
While the merry groups around the bonfires drank the healths of our family party, its members seated themselves at a most inviting looking table, which we have long half seen from behind a muslin curtain.
He went near nowther bonfires nor drink, and was seen ne more, when aw was over wi' them within.
Though the sun was still above the horizon, manybonfires were already lit at various distances along the road.
Aye, cauld corses they were, afoor ever the embers o' the bonfires had ceased to reek!
Bells were rung, bonfires kindled, and eloquent addresses made.
The darkness, however, was of little benefit, since the enemy's huge bonfires on both shores lit up the river as if it were noonday.
The approach was discovered by the enemy, who kindled large bonfires on the bank which revealed the passing vessels.
The bonfires in the North had hardly died out and the echoes of the glad bells were still lingering in the air, when the whole country was startled by one of the most horrifying events in all history.
Great bonfires had been lighted all along the banks of the river; and thousands of people stood thronged together in their flaring light, waiting to welcome their goddess and their king.
All of them were solemnly clad, and they mingled together in an inextricable mass about the myriad bonfires that served to light the performances of the jugglers, snake-charmers, and wizards who earned their living here.
On every church and farm-house of large size, straight lines of little bonfires were built along the edges of the roof.
As night fell, dozens of little bonfires were lighted in the plaza, made from cobwork piles of fat-pine.
The bonfires which showed the figure in the ruined heliographing-room, to the enemy, also showed the enemy to the watchers in the wall-towers, on opposite sides of the gates.
The whole order of things was changed by the sudden flashes from the height of the dark ruin, and the lighting of the bonfires on the bordj roof.
Gradually they formed of the dead animals a barricade of their own, and now that the bonfireswere dying it was difficult for the Europeans to touch the enemy behind cover.
These bonfires along the highway destroyed his calculations.
As evening comes on, the terrace of the pavilion is illuminated with Bengal lights, and huge pitch bonfires spring into flame, showing up the animated picture of the people's feast in varied coloring.
This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the City; and at night great bonfires and fireworks.
Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets, which methinks is a little too much.
Besides the many smaller bonfires of this fanaticism, there is record of a great conflagration, under the auspices of Bishop Zumarraga, in which a vast collection of these old writings was consumed.
Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires And feast and banquet in the open streets To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
Farewell, my masters; to my task will I; Bonfiresin France forthwith I am to make To keep our great Saint George's feast withal.
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