For each monk-guest the master got from the sacrist four candles, and the chamberlain found the tallow for the cressets in the guest-house.
He had to purchase the supply of wax for making the best candles, and the tallow or mutton fat for the cressets and the commoner sort of lights, together with the cotton for making the wicks.
But suddenly they came to a clear wide valley, yellow cressets burned at its upper end, no more than half a mile distant.
Before the speech was quite finished, however, Hoddan and his weary following rode up into the patch of light cast by the cressets outside the walls.
North, south, east, and west torches and cressets came jerking redly out of the night, flitting behind the trees in a wide circle, gathering nearer and nearer without a sound.
A great bell in the town by the sea was pulsing heavily as though for the dead, and there were many cressets flaring on the walls, and torches going to and fro in the meadows.
And as he went on through the bazaars, the crowds were passing and repassing contentedly upon the trivial errands of life, and the twinkling cressets in the shops showed faces eager only after a trivial loss or gain.
The King sat on it, almost in the dark; for the oil cressets on a trefoil stand only seemed to make the shadows blacker.
That is, at the top of the upright stem of each of these tripod cressets was an iron basket, into which fragments and knots of pine and fir were fed, as they burned.
The servants had brought in upright, three-legged cressets of iron-work.
The number of men who carried and attended to the cressets was two thousand.
To light the procession on its way the City found two hundred cressets or lanterns, the Companies found five hundred and the constables of London, two hundred and fifty in number, each carried one.
The light from the flaring cressets beat upon steel caps and fierce bearded faces, with the glimmer of drawn swords and the yellow gleam of bowstaves.
The red light of cressets and of torches burned upon the badges of the great captains of England.
Presently they drew near the great gateway, before which the flicker of cressets showed a company of the guard, with breast plates and shields, their faces hidden by the lowered visors of their Norman casks.
No sign of life appeared in the twilight, cast by the towering walls, save where in the shadowy passages the dimmed lights of cressets marked the passing of armed men.
The lights of countless cressets were reflected from the marble floor of the great reception hall and shone on the rich panelling, and the many-hued tapestries which decked the walls.
It is said that the privilege of affixing such cressets to a residence was one conferred by the State only on the most distinguished citizens, as a peculiar honor, in acknowledgment of services performed.
Crossing the courtyard, they entered the building itself, and Muiertach led them through upward-winding corridors, studded with cressets and with here and there a recessed prie-dieu in the wall.
He sent off men to loose the loaded guns on the outer walls at random, and then suddenly flung lighted cressets over the gates.
Outside the castle gates, wherecressets flared over the snow, an old seneschal appeared and ordered Brian to leave his men outside.
Out of it broke a wild Scots yell, and in the light of the courtyard cressets a wave of men surged up in the breach.
The square in front of the building was faintly illuminated by a few torches, here and there, and by large cressets that blazed in front of the Hotel.
Cressets had been lighted in the courtyard, but the bonfire was now extinguished so that the enemy, on reaching the top of the hill, should see nothing to lead them to suppose that their coming was known.
The fireflies were thick there, thick as cressets at a bridal feast .
For within less than an hour this lovely park with its carved columns and tulip-shaped cressets of fire was turned into a shambles.
The room was lit by several of the high-flaring cressets of stone.
Near them was one of the entrances to the tunnels below, and beside it was one of the stone cressets with a high-flaring flame.
Several men stood by, with flaming torches and cressetsin their hands, and by these lights I saw the gallows overhead, from which a rope dangled.
As they entered within the palisade through an opening concealed by a clump of willows, a flare of cressets and torches showed me and my conductors going from the guard-room to the gallows, and they hurried to the doctor's house with the news.
Through a number of corridors and apartments lighted by stone cressets the eunuch led Lady Greystoke halting at last before a doorway concealed by hangings of jato skin, where the guide beat with his staff upon the wall beside the door.
Cressets had burst into flame on the castle's towers, lighting a lurid firmament; while from the steeps of the city, where stood the palaces of the nobles, smoke and flame began to rush ominously into the night.
A warrior's battle, rank to rank and sword to sword, the fight had burnt to the embers before the cressetswere red in the west.
Then one of the gentlemen sprang forward and took a candle from one of the cressets to light the other with.
At times a cloister monk prayed in company with him; but for the most part he was left alone in the ghostly silence of the place, where light was there none save the cressets that burned dimly before the effigies of his patron saint.
Then they all went into the gatekeeper's room, where two cressets were burning brightly; and by that light the cloister monks saw that there was blood upon the heaviest of the keys.
The cressets burning within cast a faint pennon of light out of the pointed archway of the entrance, and as they wavered in the night wind, this banner of fire shook and trembled with an uncertain motion.
He found himself in a room about twenty feet square, the walls and floor blackened by age and by the smoke from the cressets which burned day and night in little niches in the walls.
Above the cabin stood the three cressets or stern-lamps, great structures of gilded iron surmounted each by the orb and crescent.
An instant later the cressets on the poop-rail were extinguished, as was the lantern swinging from the rail, and even the lamp in the poop-house which was invaded by one of the Basha's officers for that purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cressets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
