pine-fire

Updated: May 25, 2025

Yes," he cried, lifting up his voice, and pointing his shadowy arm towards the hall where the king sat by the pine-fire "yes, thou whom by my voice the stars chose above thy brother yes, Siror, the guilty one! take thy sword, and come hither strike, if thou hast the heart to strike, the Prophet of the Gods!" The king started to his feet, and the crowd were hushed in a shuddering silence.

Baron Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux - The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham

There were assembled around the bright pine-fire, on the occasion of this universal anniversary, neighbors, and guests from a distance, invited specially for a certain number of days, among whom the unexpected advent of a troop of engineers, of Northern extraction, made a desirable variety.

Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield - Miriam Monfort: A Novel

Then the gate of the palace opened; and, behold Siror was sitting in the hall by the vast pine-fire and his brother by his side, and his chiefs around him: for they would not deign to come amongst the crowd at the bidding of the herdsman's son. "Learn then, that the stars resent as the foulest of human crimes an insult to their servants and delegates below.

Baron Henry Peter Brougham Brougham and Vaux - The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham