He held up his torch so they could look down into something of a sharp-edged basin of rocks.
He walked along, throwing the light of his torch on the rocks as he did so.
And then, torch in hand, he started for the opening to the mine.
Then he saw that the torch was on the point of going out and he made a dash for it, and swung it once again into a faint blaze.
It was hard work, especially with the torch in hand.
The torch was knocked from his hand and he tripped and fell.
I've got my electric torch with me," said Roger, bringing that useful article from his pocket.
Once Dave tried to carry thetorch between his teeth, but it was too short, and his face was scorched, while the smoke almost strangled him.
His torch had reached its end and was on the point of going out.
The single torch gave but an uncertain light and cast grotesque shadows on all sides.
Torch in hand, he tried to make his way to the spot where he had entered the mine.
Each of the party had provided himself with a dry stick of wood, to use for a torch if one was required, and Dave now lit the stick he carried and swung it into a blaze.
A good place to prospect," said Abe Blower, as he flashed his torch over the rocky walls.
Looking ahead, they saw a torch waving in the air.
Trying to pierce the gloom ahead, Dave swung his torch behind him.
In feverish haste he set his torch up in a crack of the rocks and commenced to scoop the sand from the pocket with his hands.
An earthly messenger leans from his chariot to receive in his right hand from the guardian of the flame the torch of inspiration, while with his left hand he holds back his rearing steeds.
So the torch of God passes on its way, hand reaching out to hand.
He takes the torch which man has been so long and patiently fashioning to his hand, and turns it on the past, and at every step the sight grows stranger, and yet more moving, more pathetic.
On account of his uniform kindness to all, the fine mansion of General Lillington was saved from the torch by the interposition of many ot his Tory neighbors.
The torch was applied just as the night shadows came over the village, and the sun rose the next morning upon the smoking ruins of the first English town built in America.
Taking a small electric torch from his pocket he turned on the light.
In the foreground of a forest-gloomed retreat, in front of a high rock, a man was digging in the ground, plainly seen by the yellow flickerings from a burning torch that had been stuck upright in the ground, a few feet away.
In the gale her torch is blasted, Beacon of the hoped-for strand; Horror broods above the waters, Horror broods above the land.
By his arrows and torch he pierced and vivified all things, producing life and joy.
Leander loved her, and used to swim the strait nightly to enjoy the company of his mistress, guided by a torch which she reared upon the tower, for the purpose.
He came to his brother for help, and Prometheus, with the aid of Minerva, went up to heaven, lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire to man.
I have been walking, as it were, with a torch in my hand over a floor strewn thickly with gunpowder.
One after another the rest swept off, their rafts dancing light as corks on the emerald water, each with its flaming torch fast fixed, and its two struggling Mulgars tugging at their long water-poles.
For one in fighting had stumbled and toppled over, torch in hand, from the path, one had been slit up by an eagle's claw, and one had been carried off by the eagles.
He is represented as a drunken young man with a torch in his hand.
He was destined before his birth to cause the ruin of his country, and before he was born his mother dreamt that he would be a torch which would set fire to her palace.
She drew from the pocket of her coat a small electric torch and flashed it into the interior of the house.
Before leaving home, Farland made sure that his automatic was in excellent condition, and that he had his handcuffs and electric torch and other paraphernalia of his trade.
Do not flash your torch yet; you may do so presently, so you can see who is talking.
He also carried a torch, hence his statue has always a torch in the hand.
For nine nights and days she wandered, torchin hand, in quest of her child.
The torches were waved about and changed from hand to hand, to represent the wanderings of the goddess in search of her daughter when she was conducted by the light of a torch kindled in the flames of Etna.
On the Eleusinian coinage the pig, standing on a torch placed horizontally, appears as the sign and symbol of the Mysteries.
Yet the ray Of one torch will take away All the light of twenty more That shined very well before.
Meanwhile, I fare, as doth the torch by night, Which wastes itself in giving others light.
The light shone on swift black water, and a wind rushed through the gap that nearly blew the torch out.
In one great cave they came to every man beat out his torch and tossed it on a heap.
He proved to be right, for they came to a gap in the wall, and Ismail thrust the torch through it.
After that there was no more need to stop at intervals and beat the torch against the wall to make it burn brightly, for the wind fanned it until the flame was nearly white.
He held the torch more cunningly than a Spanish lady holds a fan.
Rewa Gunga flashed a little electric torch into his eyes, but after a few seconds he shifted it so that both their faces could be seen, although the Rangar's only very faintly.
He hurried on, flashing his torch along the blind fronts of the shops in a perfunctory manner.
A night watchman came walking presently, flashing an electric torch from side to side.
Unceremoniously thrusting the torch within the young knight's hand he lifted a heavy iron bar standing against the chimney.
But when the heavier clouds rolled beneath it, the land was blotted out in deepest darkness, which the splotch of light shed by the wavering torch served well to accentuate.
But only once again, good friar, need this phantom inn disappear, and then 'twill serve as a blazing torch to light the start of our movement southward.
But the torch is now ready trimmed, awaiting but the application of the spark.
He took his stand in the center of the floor, the flare of a single torch speeding waves of light and shadow along his tall figure.
The engraving which follows represents this aperture, an Indian with a lighted torch being seen just entering.
As we went along the dark vault, our guide raised his torch on high.
Upon each step was placed one of the arquebusiers of the Cardinal's guard, holding a torch in one hand and a long carbine in the other.
Two young men, wrapped in cloaks, thus thrown one against the other, recognized each other by the light of a torch placed at the foot of the statue of Henri IV, which had been lately raised.
Rossignol drove the flaming torch into the mass of vine-faggots, and instantly up leaped the flame.
Snatching a torch from one of the men, he went to the breastwork of the well, and leaning over it, let the torch flare down the abyss.
He could see nothing save an awful blackness, in which the rays of the torch lost themselves, without illumining any object.
A torch had been applied to a bonfire of faggots ready stacked on the platform.
