firebrand

Examples

• All

• They found Tony in a flophouse, drunk, and the fiery Firebrand setting the torch to the rickety structure.

  Blog text (1)

• Most resounding of all was The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, unleashed from Geneva in 1558 by the Protestant firebrand John Knox.

  Academic text (2010)

• Seriously, go ahead, carry your firebrands into battle.

  Blog text (8)

• "Enough to send the bishops reaching for the brushwood and firebrands." "I am glad to be away from her," sighed Alren.

  Fiction book (2001)

• "Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, 'I am only joking!'"

  Blog text (34)

• Therefore, the Church, after doing its duty in a lazy and indolent way for eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest.

  Blog text (26)

• They passed a firebrand preaching a sermon through a megaphone for a crowd too small to survey and spotted Blow-Up Doll Guy cooling his heels nearby.

  Academic text (2016)

• One, thin and short, came from the rat, now a reeking firebrand; and the second, longer and coarser, was the roar of vengeance and requital that turned into a terrible wail of pain when Mother's fingers felt the heat of the burner arm.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The campers used a glowing firebrand to light their evening campfire.

• After the war, the village was scattered with firebrands left from the burning structures.

Synonyms

E

ember

vsfirebrand

30 3.4

A small piece of wood or coal that stays hot and glows after a fire

is still burning or meant to ignite flames rather than glowing without them

B

brand

vsfirebrand

• Archaic

7 8.8

A piece of wood taken from a fire that is burning

is a burned piece used to start a new fire rather than taken from one

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology