fire-flaught

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

Old Mortality

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

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

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

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

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

Old Mortality, Complete

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

Old Mortality, Volume 2.

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

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.

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