A minute later, holding an oil cresset in her hand as a guard against snakes, she was passing swiftly through the deserted village on her way to the well.
At the top of each cressetwere flickering flames that burned without leaving any smoke.
The columns were evenly spaced and at a spot exactly between each two columns was a great cresset of stone.
The cresset was a large lanthorn fixed at the end of a long pole, and carried upon a man's shoulder.
The "cresset light" was a large lanthorn placed upon a long pole, and carried upon men's shoulders.
No difficulty in that; but to her surprise, a cresset was still burning in the arcaded veranda below, sending three bars of light across the square through which she must pass.
He was watching for other lights, the twinkling cresset lights which would tell where the Murderers waited for that first blow.
Spearing eels and flounders at night by means of a cresset hung out over the boat's bow, as she was slowly sculled up the long, shallow creeks, was a favourite form of amusement.
The torch-bearer raises hiscresset as we steam up to the bank, and plants it in a socket, when a hawser is seized round a tree, and the crew turn ashore to "wood up.
An old woman with an oil cresset held above her head came to the inner doorway and peered into the darkness through the flowers and branches garlanding the entrance.
She took up the oil-cresset again and wandered round to the extreme edge of the graveyard where it merged into the sandier common.
Very imposing were the Constables of the Watch, with their glittering armour and gold chains, each preceded by his minstrel and followed by his henchman, and with his cresset bearer by his side.
There was likewise a cresset train numbering nearly two thousand men.
On his left arm, just below the shoulder, was embroidered a silver cresset filled with red and yellow flames.
Agnes lay with her cheek pillowed on one hand, and from that hand, close by the cheek, the ruby cresset of the Duke's ring sparkled in the lamp-light.
Thus invited, Frideswide picked out a plain silver ring, set with the badge of the fiery cresset in minute rubies.
Our oriflamme to-night shall be His cresset and stern-lanthorn.
And looking through the door of the chapel, I saw on the altar a burning cresset flickering like the planet Mercury on a December morning.
How often did I light such a cresset when a boy, I mused.
II The Lord Privy Seal was beneath a tall cresset in the stern of his barge, looking across the night and the winter river.
He stood invisible behind the lights of his cabin; and the thud of oars, the voluble noises of the water, and the crackling of the cresset overhead had, too, the quality of impersonal and supernatural phenomena.
The lantern, a kind of cresset protected by a wire globe, was suspended from the roof by a string.
It was nigh on an hour, however, before Peroo, having concluded his bargain, came back with it, and by the light of the cresset set to work appraising his success or failure.
Thou wilt need a cresset for safety from the snakes.
He took the cresset from its bracket, carried it down, and tossed it into the court, where the flames spluttered out in the rain.
A cresset flamed and spluttered higher up the stairway, throwing down an ineffectual gleam upon the man's armour as he stood and looked into the night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cresset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: flambeau; flare; lamp; link; torch
