brimly

Updated: June 20, 2025

There setting it on the ground, they struck a light, fastened the tapers to the body, and with the help of them, sacrilegiously burnt the image down to a heap of ashes; the old dry wood "blazing so brimly," that it lighted them a full mile on their way home.

James Anthony Froude - The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

There setting it on the ground, they struck a light, fastened the tapers to the body, and with the help of them, sacrilegiously burnt the image down to a heap of ashes; the old dry wood "blazing so brimly," that it lighted them a full mile of their way home.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.