Torchbearer

I will do my best to live up to the title of Torchbearer.

One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

I will do my best to live up to the title of Torchbearer.

One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

The Hierophant, the "Torchbearer," the "Sacred Herald," and the other priests wear long flowing raiment and high mitres like Orientals.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

It's part of what earned the school the "Torchbearer" title.

WSFA - Around Alabama 2010

He did whatever it took to be an Olympic Torchbearer and bought his torch and other stuff.

Autumn and Fall, Wheelchair Badminton, Squirrel Siblings and loot! Elizabeth McClung 2009

But in the following five events, each time The Torchbearer appeared at the entrance to the sports field, the high-pitched cry would go into the air and the children would start moving toward it like metal shavings being pulled toward a magnet.

Susan Brownell: Why Were Chinese People So Angry About the Attempts to Seize the Torch in the International Torch Relay? 2008

The member who attracted the most attention everywhere was Sun Yiyong, songwriter and a torchbearer during the Inner Mongolia torch relay, who was called simply The Torchbearer （火炬手）。

Susan Brownell: Why Were Chinese People So Angry About the Attempts to Seize the Torch in the International Torch Relay? 2008

Paralympic fencer Jin Jing has been called the “Smiling Angel in Wheelchair” and the “Most Beautiful Torchbearer” by Chinese netizens after showing incredible courage in protecting the Olympic torch in Paris from repeated assaults by Tibetan separatists.

The Beleaguered Torch, Now With Nazi Origins - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Against the background of the furor over the international torch relay, observing the reverence and emotion for The Torch and The Torchbearer made me suddenly see how cynical we are, more often than not, in the West, as a product of our secularized, rationalized society in which there are only small spaces in which it is acceptable to express reverence for symbols.

Susan Brownell: Why Were Chinese People So Angry About the Attempts to Seize the Torch in the International Torch Relay? 2008

Finally, The Torchbearer entered the stadium, wearing his red-and-white official torchbearer's shirt and shorts and carrying the real Lucky Clouds torch, images that were easily identified by the children because the real torch relay was being broadcast daily on Chinese TV as it passed through China.

Susan Brownell: Why Were Chinese People So Angry About the Attempts to Seize the Torch in the International Torch Relay? 2008