1 I was stupid; I became vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 2 The education which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the flame.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER 3 Arise out of our dust, O unnamed avenger, to pursue the Dardanian settlement with firebrand and steel.
4 Nor did Cisseus' daughter alone conceive a firebrand and travail of bridal flames.
5 Chingachgook very quietly resumed his seat; nor did he make any reply, until after he had examined the firebrand which had been struck by the bullet that had nearly proved fatal to himself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 6 Stop a bit," said the dragoon, placing his saber like a spit upon the two large iron dogs which held the firebrands in the chimney, "stop a bit, I am in it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS 7 Aeneas thunders in arms, and threatens to overthrow and hurl to destruction the high Italian fortress; and already firebrands are flying on our roofs.