97 examples of torchlights in sentences

He even goes to Brooklyn to hear Torchlight preach."

"I don't pretend to be a judge of doctrine, further than the catechism goes," said the widow; "but Mr. Rook says that Torchlight is a dangerous man, and will lead the churches off into infidelity.

They were dancing in rings under the moon, their shadowy figures rendered weird by smoky torchlight.

I have never seen the statues of the Vatican by torchlight.

Beyond the tomb of Nelson, in a ghastly ghost-befitting chamber hung with the velvet which surrounded his lying in state at Chelsea, and on which, by the flickering torchlight, we see emblazoned the many Orders presented to him by foreign sovereigns, is the funeral car of Wellington, modeled and constructed in six weeks, at an expense of £13,000, from guns taken in his campaigns.

So the meeting broke up, and the torchlight grew dimmer, and died away as it had come in a red flicker on the roof, and the footsteps sounded fainter as they went up the passage, until the vault was left to the dead men and me.

"Instantly the dean held up the Prayer-book, and the torchlight fell upon the cross on its cover.

Bennington faced the expressionless gaze of twenty masks, on which the torchlight threw Strong black shadows.

Even by torchlight their breath showed in the frosty air.

High he loomed above the feasters in the torchlight dim and weird, From his eyes hot tears were streaming, sparkling in his tawny beard; Shining in his sea-blue mantle stood he, 'mid that wondering throng, And each maiden thought him fairest, and each warrior vowed him strong.

Besides, there were eggs to hide at Easter; cherries and strawberries in May; fruit all summer; fishing parties by torchlight; lobelia and sumac to be gathered, dried and sold for pocket money; and in the fall, chestnuts, persimmons, wild grapes, cider, and the grand butchering after frost came, so that all the pleasures I knew were incidental to a farmer's life.

Their object was to surprise the fish-poachers at the illegal, but very exciting and picturesque, sport of spearing by torchlight.

At another place Bartram noted the arrival at a plantation of horse loads of wild pigeons taken by torchlight from their roosts in a neighboring swamp.[10] [Footnote 10: William Bartram, Travels (London, 1792), pp.

In order to celebrate it particularly, the guests went to the house where it was given, by torchlight.

He then proceeded by torchlight to the Louvre, accompanied throughout his progress by the same acclamations of loyalty and enthusiasm as had greeted the ears of his dead father only a few months previously.

Torchlights to the Cherokees.

Torchlight procession.

Torchlights to the Cherokees.

(The Torchlight series of Napoleonic romances, 10) © 7Mar38; A114835.

We had the melancholy satisfaction of finding the bodies of our comrades, whom we buried at night in one large grave, and performing the solemn service of the dead by torchlight.

Oh, on the way that led me to your side, I saw in torchlight where they dug the grave That on the morrow shall receive my bones!

The family are at pains to entertain him; they sing their best songs for his amusement, and after midnight a numerous band of men and maidens escorts him by torchlight, with songs and jubilation, to his own house.

They marched in procession by torchlight, chanting Christmas carols, and the fitful illumination of the woods, the hedges, and the fields as they moved through the darkness, presented a succession of picturesque scenes.

Row and flashing of steel in torchlight.

HONTHORST, GERARD VAN, a Flemish painter, born at Utrecht, painted night and torchlight scenes; "Christ before Pilate" his best-known work (1592-1666).

97 examples of  torchlights  in sentences