All were unarmed; but the muscles of their heavy shoulders, the gorilla-like dangle of their steel-fingered hands produced an effect more ominous even than the gleam of simitars in the dim cressets' light would have been.

Before thee Pallas Athene bore a golden cresset and cast a most lovely light.

The tall turrets shone and shimmered in the moonlight, and over the gateway of the drawbridge hung a lighted cresset that is, a beautiful wrought-iron basket, in which blazed a ruddy torch of oil to light them on their way.