What is "cresset"

Usage examples of "cresset".

Soldiers clung to the scaffolding, fish-eyed and blinking, while Bransian waved a fresh cresset toward the cranny that lay dimmest and farthest from the stairshaft.

But as he watched the gangling shape depart, silhouetted against the orange flare of the cressets along the levee, January reflected that he himself was probably the only person in New Orleans actually interested in bringing either justice or vengeance to the shade of Hesione LeGros.

Shrub and a couple of the other yard boys had come in with ladders and were hanging cagelike grilles over the wall cressets.

All the candles were lit in the cressets and wooden chandeliers, and the long room was packed with customers of every sort, from foreign mercenaries with odd accents to middle-aged merchants sweating under the weight of many-pocketed display coats.

Irishman lean toward one of the still-burning wall cressets, puff the snake alight, and plod on, trailing clouds of white smoke.

The table candles and wall cressets would not be lit for another hour or so, and shadows were proliferating in the corners and under the chairs.

Hoddan and his weary followers rode up into the patch of light cast by the cressets outside the walls.

Guinalda stood: He saw her drink to him and he saw that her eyes were regarding him, but the distance was too great and the light of the pitch torches and the oil cressets too dim for him to see whether her glance carried a message of friendship or dislike.

There was even a gonfalon of Old Kzin, and some of the artificial lights shone from cressets of antique appearance.

As servants brought candles for the table and set several torches in wall cressets, Rhun steered the discussion in less hysterical directions.

Th' ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.

Riding swiftly up the narrow lanes of the University Quarter, the Wolf hadn't been so naive as to suppose that the oil burning behind all those luminous golden squares of window parchment, the lantern-light streaming from taverns where gray-robed students argued metaphysics at the top of their voices, and the firefly cressets darting along in the hands of hundreds of blue-uniformed linkboys had anything to do with the assault on Vorsal at tomorrow's dawn.

In summer, stores and taverns and workshops stayed open from dusk until dawn, fishing boats set out at midnight to trawl the black river for noctilucent polyps and pale shrimp, and the streets of Aeolis were crowded and bustling beneath the flare of cressets and the orange glow of sodium-vapor lamps.

Polar bear skins served as rugs, and a cresset with flaming knots of Norway pine gave added light to that which a large fireplace flung, for stone walls are sometimes cold and damp, even in summer.

On the top level, giant kabuzu shell cressets, fifteen meters tall, burned whale oil.