Sentence examples for lighted torch from inspiring English sources

In place of these ships he promised to restore many times the number if they would but fight boldly; and in truth, he added, the goddesses by omens from the victims had foretold victory in the entire war. 4 While he was saying this, one of his attendants brought forward a lighted torch.

It is still dim enough to see the lighted torch, and that, too, stirs my soul.

He took up the matka, a clay pot of water, as well as a lighted torch, and walked seven times around the pyre.

For a moment I felt as if somebody... was strolling down my throat with a lighted torch, and then everything seemed suddenly to get all right.

At the cremation site, a lighted torch is handed to the eldest son or grandson, who ignites the pyre, near the feet of the dead woman, at the head of the dead man.

One with torches attached to his fingers lighted torches on another performer's headdress.

3 Accordingly he collected two thousand picked men and, giving half of them lighted torches and forming the others so as to meet the enemy, he suddenly threw all the gates wide open.

As night fell, hundreds of Army recruits brought lighted torches, and did the "mashal dance".

Children would celebrate the fandroana by carrying lighted torches and lanterns in a nighttime processional through their villages.

With giant drawings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin as their backdrop, dancers twirled giant puppets and jugglers tossed lighted torches.

In 1139, Henry de Tracy forced the surrender of Torrington Castle by the simple expedient of tossing lighted torches through the keep's loopholes.