Harriet raised a wand, in this case a burning fagot. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas] Reference
Wasn't this one more fagot on the funeral pyre of good?. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
She struck out with the burning fagot with all the force of a muscular arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas] Reference
Mowbray, rather testily, “to instruct me in the mystery of fagot-making?”. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
Is it not a strange thing, by the by, that one never sees a fagot in Scotland?. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
The latter exclaimed, as soon as he entered, “Fire and fagot! what have we here?”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Dard made no move to light the greased fagot supported by the iron loop above the table. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
He had laid down his fagot in the road, and was trying to lift it again to his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
"You are the fagot of my intellect," she says to him; but she forbids him to talk of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
The fagot-maker began to cut wood, and the children to gather up the sticks to make fagots. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
Here they light again, as they have often lighted, torch and fagot; -- life must pay the cost!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Put the stock into a stewpan; slice in the leek and add the fagot of herbs and the peppercorns. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Were there no other error than this in your infernal theology, well would ye deserve the fagot!. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
On either side of this pitiful altar there flamed, in lieu of candles, a fagot taken from the pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
An instant after he issued with a lighted fagot, which he threw into the darkness, whistling shrilly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
Vrikodara's heart, and are consuming him, like a burning bundle of straw consuming a fagot of dry wood!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
THERE was, once upon a time, a man and his wife fagot-makers by trade, who had several children, all boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
The victim lay helpless before his persecutors; the agonies of disease supplied the place of rack and fagot. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
Neither did he preach the gospel with the sword, like the Spaniard, nor with fire and fagot, like the puritan. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire — of the fagot and stake. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Warwick cruelly cast a fagot at him which struck him on his head, and cut his face, so that the blood ran down. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The North is for freedom of discussion, the South represses freedom of discussion with the tar-brush and the pine fagot. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848] Reference
Then I repaired to the border of the desert, where I met a wood-cutter, who had tied up his fagot to carry it into the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
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