Sentence example with the word 'cressets'

cressets

Last update: July 14, 2015


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Cressets used to be kept burning at night on some of the campanili to serve as beacons for those at sea.   [Please select]

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And they all desisted from eating, and were enraged at her, and fire began to issue from their mouths as from cressets.   [Please select]

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This passage was dimly lighted by flickering cressets set in niches in the walls at considerable distances apart.   [Please select]

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Torches, flares, and cressets threw their fitful light on toiling lines of men hauling on ropes that moved the ships apparently like snails.   [Please select]

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And as he went on through the bazaars, the crowds were passing and repassing contentedly upon the trivial errands of life, and the twinkling cressets in the shops showed faces eager only after a trivial loss or gain.   [Please select]

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The King sat on it, almost in the dark; for the oil cressets on a trefoil stand only seemed to make the shadows blacker.   [Please select]

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They mark it inland; blithe and fair of face Her suitors follow, guessing by the glare Beyond the hilltops in the evening air How bright the cressets at her portals blaze.   [Please select]

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