8 Metaphors for torches

But the sputtering torch was a danger, for presently it would show our position; so Bertrand very gallantly pulled it down, stamped it out, and got back to his post unscathed.

The superstitious man, according to him, after having washed his hands with lustral waterthat is, water in which a torch from the altar had been quenchedgoes about with a laurel-leaf in his mouth, to keep off evil influences, as the pigs in Devonshire used, in my youth, to go about with a withe of mountain ash round their necks to keep off the evil eye.

The torches were, as usual, bundles of straw wrapt round poles.

"Innocence Prefers Love to Riches" and the "Torch of Venus" are well-known works by Mlle.

W. Mannhardt thought (Baumkultus, p. 536) that the torches in the modern European customs are imitations of lightning.

The torch of life to kindle we were fain;A fire-sea,what a fire!doth round us close; Love is it?

Come the worst, the hymeneal torch, and a white sheet, must be my amende honorable, as the French have it.

As she herself had said, possibly the torch of genius burned brightest in dark places, for it was certainly genius upon which she looked to-night.

8 Metaphors for  torches