And he wrote a pamphlet, and such as read it took firebrands, and visited the Dissenters in their habitations.

The Moors rendered desperate by this inhuman treatment, defended themselves to the utmost, and even threw firebrands into our ship to set it on fire.

How great were the camps of both that he destroyed in one night by casting firebrands into them!

It was youyou, I saywho hurled those firebrands, both those with which your friend himself was nearly burnt, and those by which the house of Lucius Bellienus was set on fire and destroyed.

marry, in your hand Carry me forth a burning firebrand, For with his sparkling shine, old rumour says, A firebrand the swiftest runner frays:

The Pope drove home his advantage, and getting more power among individuals on the Council forced them to indict their firebrand.

He was busy lighting his firebrand, and his features seemed sharp and intent when the beams came out.

In the first place, there is his brother Luciuswhat a firebrand, O ye immortal gods!

He was waiting for the instant that the herd would come thundering down the hill, in order to pass lighted firebrands to the bold men who held that corner.

So, as he rapidly continued his flight, he plunged the now blazing firebrand into the dry grass, here and there, on each side of the trail.

If he was Siegfried the gay, she was Chriemhild the grim; and as likely to prove a firebrand as the girl in the ballad.

" So the cat went off and coming to a house, went inside to pull a firebrand from the hearth.

She hoped to prevent a political conflagration emanating from her social circle by scattering the firebrands, and she succeeded admirably.

My bowels yearn o'er dying men: And fain my pity would reclaim, And snatch the firebrands from the flame.

A fortnight earlier Carleton had arrested that firebrand, Walker, who had previously refused to leave the country, though Carleton had given him the chance of doing so.

She had done no end of good with clubs and mothers' meetings at her married home; and it was no end of a pity she was not in Compton parish, instead of under poor wretched old Fuller, whom you could not stirno, not if you tied a firebrand to his tail.

In the Summer you are roaming Idly in the fields and forests; In the Winter you are cowering O'er the firebrands in the wigwam!

While the Rani was fetching a firebrand from the hearth the mongoose saw the mango and climbing up nibbled part of it without being seen.

'We seem to have got a young firebrand in the midst of us.' 'Oh, papa!

"Grab a firebrand, quick!"