Enter Page with a Flambeaux, followed by Cinthio; passes over the Stage.

1724 'a Street.' p. 418, l. 27 a Flambeaux.

As Sir T. Herbert, Travels (1638), has a plural 'Flambeauxes' I have retained 'Flambeaux' as a singular here, though no other instance can be cited.

She answered "No," and he retreated, the flambeaux gleaming on a weapon beneath his cloak.

Flaring flambeaux, torches, Chinese lanterns, and oil lamps flicker and glare, and make the interior almost as bright as day.

At the end of the third act, coffee was handed round to the court circle; and precisely at eleven the performances finished,and the flambeaux gleamed through the dimly-lighted streets of Windsor, as the happy family returned to their tranquil home.

At this very time Melissa is dancing with the prettiest gentleman;she will breakfast with him to-morrow, and then run to two auctions, and hear compliments, and have presents; then she will be drest, and visit, and get a ticket to the play; then go to cards and win, and come home with two flambeaux before her chair.

Torches sprang into flame, braziers of resin wood began to smoke, flambeaux were lit, and, half blinded by the glare, the Christian monk stood revealed in the hall of Abul Malek.

(The Guards advance with lanterns and flambeaux.)

The voice ceased; the chains and bolts were one by one withdrawn; the door slowly swung back, and a glare of flambeaux flashed into the cell.

The long dark shadows of the Louvre lay heavy on the dull pavement of the court, save where they were broken at intervals by the resinous flambeaux which glared and flickered against the walls of the building.

People still living can remember the days when the Archbishop of Canterbury was preceded by servants bearing flambeaux when he walked across from Lambeth Chapel to what were called "Mrs. Howley's Lodgings."

How often we see these great red flaring flambeaux of life blown out, as it were, by a puff of wind,and the little, single-wicked night-lamp of being, which some white-faced and attenuated invalid shades with trembling fingers, flickering on while they go out one after another, until its glimmer is all that is left to us of the generation it belonged to!

"Villette is one blaze, one broad illumination; the whole world seems abroad; moonlight and heaven are banished: the town by her own flambeaux, beholds her own splendourgay dresses, grand equipage, fine horses and gallant riders, throng the bright streets.

The white composition used for charging fire balls and 1½ inch flambeaux is formed of 500 parts of powdered chlorate of potash, 1,500 of nitrate of baryta, 120 of light wood charcoal, and 250 of boiled oil.

Another white composition, used for charging ¾ inch flambeaux, consists of 1,000 parts of chlorate of potash, 1,000 of nitrate of baryta, and 175 of boiled oil.

The red composition used for making red flambeaux and percussion signals consists of 1,800 parts of chlorate of potash, 300 of oxalate of strontia, 300 of carbonate of strontia, 48 of whitewood charcoal, 240 of boiled oil, 6 of oil, and 14 of gum lac.

SEE Daudet, Leon. DAUDET, LEON. Flambeaux.

SEE Daudet, Leon. DAUDET, LEON. Flambeaux.

A long procession of flambeaux and friars; no plumes, trophies, banners, led horses, scutcheons, or open chariots; nothing but friars, White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.

The mob was beyond all belief: they held flambeaux to the windows of every coach, and demanded to have the masks pulled off and put on at their pleasure, but with extreme good-humour and civility.

Till the houses blot; And the odd flambeaux no men carry Glimmer on the spot!

A something in a summer's day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.

Till the houses blot; And the odd flambeaux no men carry Glimmer on the spot!

In a short time, the lights of flambeaux appeared, and the princess herself arrived, accompanied by some female attendants before and behind her; melancholy and anger were visible in her looks; she mounted the platform and sat down