fire-flaught

“He passed by me like a fire-flaught when I was in the garden!”

Old Mortality 2004

Like the course of the fire-flaught the clansmen pass'd on,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Soon he heard cries of alarm, horror, despair, and came up to the worthy clergyman of the parish cowering up against the hedge, almost in a fainting fit, under a strong impression that it was the Evil One in person who just hissed past him in a fire-flaught.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

On that fearfu disclosure, when ye rushed frae the Countess's presence and saddled your horse, and left the castle like a fire-flaught, the Countess hadna yet discovered your private marriage; she hadna fund out that the union, which she had framed this awfu 'tale to prevent, had e'en taen place.

The Antiquary 1845

On that fearfu 'disclosure, when ye rushed frae the Countess's presence and saddled your horse, and left the castle like a fire-flaught, the Countess hadna yet discovered your private marriage; she hadna fund out that the union, which she had framed this awfu' tale to prevent, had e'en taen place.

The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

"He passed by me like a fire-flaught when I was in the garden!"

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"He passed by me like a fire-flaught when I was in the garden!"

Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

On that fearfu 'disclosure, when ye rushed frae the Countess's presence and saddled your horse, and left the castle like a fire-flaught, the Countess hadna yet discovered your private marriage; she hadna fund out that the union, which she had framed this awfu' tale to prevent, had e'en taen place.

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Yet Christ cometh with an immediate glimpse, like a fire-flaught [flash of lightening] in the air, which letteth the lost and bewildered traveler, in an extremely dark night, see a lodging at hand, whereas otherwise he should have fallen in a pit and lost himself: and in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the Lord having rebuked the winds and the stormy tempests in the soul, there is a calm and peace, (Psalm 31: 22; Jonah 2: 4).

The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645

Aiblins a fire-flaught o 'my een, it might be -- I've had them unco often, the day -- "

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847