So he took the two dinars and embarked them in the boat; and he put off and rowed about with them awhile, when behold, the barge came down the river in mid-stream, with lighted flambeaux and cressets flaming therein.
Flambeaux are big iron baskets on iron poles, and the poles are pointed at the bottom so they can be jabbed into the ground or a floor or anything.
So about then we began to see the lights come out on shore, and pretty soon we saw the big, smoky light the flambeaux made.
Where she dived, the flambeaux clustered; and up among them, Hautia rose; hands, full of pearls.
We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.
I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within.
He found it illuminated with an infinite number of flambeaux of white wax, and a delicious scent issued from several boxes of fine gold, of admirable workmanship, all ranged in excellent order.
He found it lighted up with an infinite number of flambeaux of white wax, and perfumed by a delicious scent issuing from several censers of fine gold of admirable workmanship.
How a small dusk crawls on the village Till the houses blot; And the oddflambeaux no men carry Glimmer on the spot!
A something in a summer's day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.
Now I have just come from Cairo, where I left the hunchback at the door of the bath, surrounded by the King's servants holding lighted flambeaux and making mock of him.
Shortly afterwards Prince Mirliflor, just as he was about to extinguish the flambeaux and turn into bed, was startled to see his door opening by some mysterious means.
As the link-boys passed the coach some and some with their flambeaux I could see Dorothy's sweet pale face, almost hidden in the tangled golden red hair which fell in floods about her.
He held her in his arms, and the light of the flambeaux fell upon her upturned face.
The flambeaux on the castle gate and those which the link-boys had brought with them from Haddon were lighted, and the scene in front of the gate was all aglow.
When I had reached the middle of the gallery, I heard a great clatter and saw the light of flambeaux coming towards me.
The household turned out withflambeaux to receive her, and never did torches gleam on a more weather-beaten, travel-stained band than came tramping into the court.
The prince ordered out forest guards, and domestics with flambeaux to search for the confessor.
This is a three-storied structure with a high iron fence, and before its door pillars on which are flambeaux snuffers attest the age of the building.
These extinguishers were used by the footmen to put out the flambeaux that were carried lighted on the backs of carriages at night.
Tis a pretty piece of vanity,” says he, looking gloomily at the beautiful creature: there were flambeaux in the room lighting up the brilliant mistress of it.
After an hour the gentlemen joined the ladies, and then they all sat and played quadrille until three o’clock in the morning, when the chairs and the flambeaux came, and this noble company went to bed.
Mark the flambeaux guttering and sputtering into an odorous death.
At this moment Aunt Becky's voice was heard at the door, and the flash of the flambeaux glared on the window.
Behind these two couples filed nobles, ladies, pages and officers; the flambeaux gleamed over the whole court, like the moving reflections of a conflagration.
The young prince exhibited, when bowing to some windows from which issued the most animated acclamations, a noble and handsome countenance, illumined by the flambeaux of his pages.
I have now just flown hither from Cairo, where I left the Hunchback at the door of the Hammam-bath amidst the Sultan's white slaves who were waving lighted flambeaux about him.
And behold, there appeared cressets and lanthorns and flambeaux and up came the army of women.
Before them they lighted brilliant flambeaux of wax in candelabra of gold, but their faces outshone the flambeaux, for that they had eyes sharper than unsheathed swords and the lashes of their eyelids bewitched all hearts.
Flambeaux were also carried before them in the streets; and with this sort of pomp, they were ushered to a great building with extensive courts, sufficient to lodge the whole army, which was assigned them for their quarters.
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