pine-torch

In his left hand he raised his curved shield, and in his right a huge pine-torch, and near him in front stood up his mighty spear.

The Argonautica 2008

[23] And we shall come with the pine-torch to kindle it, and with pitch and tow to feed it.

Cyropaedia 2007

So saying, she put the pine-torch into my hand, and returned into the house,

Rob Roy 2005

Light from a blazing pine-torch flashes from the door of a _cave_; it is a wine vault.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Amid them the infuriate queen holds her blazing pine-torch on high, and chants the wedding of Turnus and her daughter; and rolling her bloodshot gaze, cries sudden and harsh: 'Hear, O mothers of Latium, wheresoever you be; if unhappy Amata hath yet any favour in your affection, if care for a mother's right pierces you, untie the chaplets from your hair, begin the orgies with me.'

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

In his left hand he raised his curved shield, and in his right a huge pine-torch, and near him in front stood up his mighty spear.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

Close under the flanking camp lay the fleet, fenced about with mounds and the waters of the river; it he attacks, and calls for fire to his exultant comrades, and eagerly catches a blazing pine-torch in his hand.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

They passed stooping under the little low door, and the woodman, having lighted a pine-torch, stuck it into a split iron rod to serve as a candlestick, and a bright light, clear and white as moonshine, filled the hut, lighting up every corner of it.

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

They were on their way to their chambers, and those two figures, with their cloaks flung over their shoulders, their loose Hungarian boots up to the knees, the body closely girt with long dark-green laced and frogged tunics, and the bear-skin cap closely and warmly covering the head, were very picturesque objects by the flickering light of the pine-torch.

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

After a while a twinkling gleam showed them returning, in with a small pine-torch alight in his hand, and Gloin with a bundle of others under his arm.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938