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Definition of Bonfires
1. bonfire [n] - See also: bonfire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonfires
Literary usage of Bonfires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"It remains to ask, What is the meaning of burning an effigy in these bonfires ?
The effigies so burned, as I have already remarked, can hardly be separated ..."
2. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT bonfires." Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed each
other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... Yet he through merry feasting which he made, And great bonfires, did not the
cold remember ; His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad. ..."
4. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"15, 1883—Great Rejoicing, bonfires, Ratification Meetings—Constitutional Amendment
Submitted in Oregon and Lost, June, 1884—Suffrage by Legislative ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"and kingdom, that the army and the city were of one mind. And, as foon as the
evening came, there was a continued light of bonfires throughout ..."
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