113 Verbs to Use for the Word torch

The hyenas and the jackals and the wolves represent the anarchists who are down on everybody in the show, who won't do a thing to help along and won't allow any other animal to do anything, and who seem to want to burn and slay, to carry a torch by night and poison by day, and want everything in the show to be chaos.

Nor am I going to insist that her eyes had a fire like that of stars, or proclaim that Cupid was in the habit of lighting his torch from them.

That once seem'd pleas'd at Bellmour's Flame and mine, And smiling join'd our Hearts, our sacred Vows, And spread your Wings, and held your Torches high.

And in a while, behold a glow that grew ever brighter, until, of a sudden, a man appeared bearing a flaming pine-torch, that showed a wide cave whose rugged roof and walls glistened here and there, and whose rocky floor ended abruptly in a yawning gulf from whose black depths came soft murmurs and ripplings of water far below.

Hundreds of rebel soldiers marched to every section of Mississippi that they could reach, and applied the torch to these cotton ricks.

He took out his torch, and guided by its light (which, however, he took care not to throw towards the cottage windows) he advanced to the garden gate, the Sergeant following, and took a survey of the premises.

[She waves the torch as though bearing incense.

Thucydides relates how, in the ninth year of the Peloponnesian War, the temple of Juno at Argos was burnt down owing to the priestess Chrysis having set a lighted torch too near the garlands and then fallen asleep.

There he kindled a torch of pine and stooping 'neath the low roof, went on before.

See all along the shore, as you look up the bay towards the Lake House, how the millions of fireflies flash their tiny torches, upward and downward, this way and that, mingling and crossing, and gyrating and whirlinga troubled and billowy sea of millions upon millions of glowing and sparkling gems.

Then, aroused to the horror of their nearness, he seized a torch and made at the slimy heap.

" So saying he ordered the dacoits to extinguish their torches and follow him with the bags of money.

A man brought a torch and lit the brushwood on the altar.

" Peter crouched on the hearth and lighted the fire in three places, then handed the torch to Kathleen as he crept again into his mother's lap, awed into complete silence by the influence of his own mystic rite.

The Boy lifted his flaring torch with a victorious sense of having just bought back the Orange Grove; and Salmon P. passed the nugget to his partner with a blissful sigh.

So came he at last to the sally-port and hurling the blazing torch behind him, closed the heavy door.

They assembled again in the square, and tossing their torches up into the air cast them blazing into a pile; while the flame and black smoke rose in a column into the air, they sang in solemn chorus, the song "Gaudeamus igitur," with which they close all public assemblies.

The first great rush was to the cellars, and the invaders were quickly at work knocking off the heads of bottles, and brandishing torches.

They sang the "Marseillaise," and at each chorus they stopped and raised their torches, crying, "To arms!"

The Hauptstrasse was filled with two lines of flame, as the procession passed down it; when they reached the extremity of the city, the hearse went on, attended with torch-bearers, to the Cemetery, some distance further, and the students turned back, running and whirling their torches in mingled confusion.

As he stood on tip-toe on the altar and passed his torch along the wall, the mighty ranks of the fallen angels, in headlong flight before the thunderbolts of heaven, seemed to emerge from the darkness, with the awful form of Lucifer in the extreme rear reluctantly yielding even to Omnipotence itself, while blasting lightnings played about his brow and eyes, that flashed with the fires of inextinguishable fury.

The remedy adopted for this in Norway, is to throw into the polluted water a lighted torch.

Suddenly, beside it, flared a surprising torch, rags burning greasily at the end of a long bamboo.

" "If they've got a torch" "They won't have.

At night the whole is set on fire and boys and girls dance round it, swinging torches and singing rhymes in which the words "corn in the winnowing-basket, the plough in the earth" may be distinguished.

113 Verbs to Use for the Word  torch