Singer or bearer

Usage examples of torch.

These protected the main bodies by a process of ablation so that to the opposition each man appeared to flare up under fire like a living torch.

The first eight were spent accelerating, and then the blazing antimatter torches were turned toward the enemy and a deceleration began.

He strapped on his Smith and Wesson, shrugged into his jacket and put the aerosol can in one pocket and the hooded torch in the other.

Aye as I went, that maiden who had reared The torch of Truth afar, of whose high deeds The Hermit in his pilgrimage had heard, Haunted my thoughts.

Frenchman, Pierre Rostafel, who wandered unsteadily up and down the quadrangle, his torch of alfa grass ready in his hand.

I switched on the torch and found Angekok there before me, his arms folded across his chest.

There is a dry bituminous wood upon the plateaua species of araucaria, according to our botanistwhich is always used by the Indians for torches.

I was beginning to wonder if Arem was going to let us bring out any torches, when I thought I saw a little movement in a distant tree to my left.

The gentle glow of the Argand lamps had been replaced by pitch-coated torches in iron sconces.

The Seneschal was quickly at his shoulder with a flaring torch as Prince Rupert entered the Armoury of the Forest Kings.

Hal appeared in the armoury doorway with a sword in one hand and a burning torch that he had seized from its bracket in the other.

Then Aumery, having handed his torch to Tirgit, was there, fussily helping Michel to rise to his feet.

Skinner, at Harvard, to carry the torch of behaviourism, which he continued to do throughout his long career as experimental psychologist, educational adviser, philosopher and novelist until his death in 1990.

Finally the two whirling torches were flung full at the bolder Aliansa.

The boojum registered the number, velocity, mass, and origin of the small ships, as well as noting the tell-tale hydrogen torches propelling them.