The princes applaud, with a furious joy; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. CHORUS.

The Foot Guards stood close together with arms reversed, every fifth man having a flambeau.

I lit my flambeau and plodded through the mapé-wood in a brown study, in my ears the fading strains of the arearea, and in my brain a feeling of oneness with the eerie presences of the silent wilderness.

She was followed by a suite of twelve nobles, each bearing a flambeau in his hand; and after these came the Duc de Lorraine as godfather, with Don Juan de Medicis, son of the Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany, as proxy for the Grand Duchess of Florence, the other sponsor, the ladies who had assisted at the Princess's levée closing the train.

Our guide then prepared a flambeau, and having unlocked and lifted up a trap door invited us to descend.

Helen waves a tiny flambeau, the candle is lighted, the flame whirled down upon the hearth and trodden out.

"Look yeI have lost my flambeau, but come to the window and take a squint at him."