Word: braziers
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...Solomon Eagles (or Eccles) was a fanatical 17th Century Quaker who, stripped to the waist and carrying a brazier full of fire & brimstone on his head, walked the streets predicting doom...
...children attend Sunday School," he said enthusiastically, sitting on the crate that he uses for a chair and warming his slender hands over a tiny charcoal brazier. "In the spring I hope to start a day school. I hope also ... to make plans to improve their condition. It is too difficult to change their occupation at once, for they are too poor...
...captain," said Dimitri, "decided to make an example of me before the others. He had me hung by the legs, head downwards, over a brazier of coals...
...villa in Sicily: "About half-past five in the morning, the household had to go out and face the sun. It was called 'adoration.' The evening ceremony was the great thing. In one corner was a chair in which Mr. Crowley sat in front of a brazier in which incense was burned. There was a scarlet woman who wore a jeweled snake under her robe. There was a sort of hysterical business. [Once] a cat was sacrificed. The knife was blunt and the cat got out of the red circle. That was bad for magical work...
...service is held in a hall decorated with "a great many flowers and fir branches," and with a charcoal brazier at one end. Four girl attendants hold torches, four boys are trumpeters. Costume: uniform preferred, otherwise white shirt, dark trousers...