With that he set fire to a dry pine faggot, the best torch available, and left her, going deeper into the cave.

ous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair; 100 One frugal faggot lights the naked walls, And Nature's fervour through their limbs recalls: Bread of the coarsest sort, with eager wine, (Each hardly granted) served them both to dine; And when the tempest first appear'd to cease, A ready warning bid them part in peace.

The criminal's cart, with its ghastly faggot for a seat, was her ordained conveyance; but her step did not falter as she stepped into the vehicle which had been previously tenanted by the vilest and most degraded culprits.

Even the little faggots of kindling wood, willow-knotted and with the dry copper-tinted leaves still clinging to the twigs, had a rustic charm.

Around the piled faggots on which the column was to fall, great fascines of flags of the favourite colour were flying.

With that he set fire to a dry pine faggot, the best torch available, and left her, going deeper into the cave.

Close by he started his fire, knowing from experience oft repeated how a cheery blaze in the forest may dispel shadows within even as it makes the sombrest of shadows dance gaily under the trees; to one side he laid many resinous faggots, planning on their crackling light later on when the dark came.

They fed the fire from cuaile mor conaidh caoingreat bundles of sacred faggots brought to the knoll on Beltane Eve.

Her highness preferred the halter; her sullen sister faggot and fire.

Some tough faggots thrown over these afforded a footing, or we should never have got over.