These footraces took the form of relays in which teams of runners passed off a flaming torch.

Its legend ran that the sight of St. Spyridon approaching turkish forces bearing a flaming torch in one hand and a cross in the other, had caused panic.

Just before his birth, his mother dreamed that she gave birth to a flaming torch.

The gold flaming torch represents knowledge.

It was first used in TV coverage of the 1976 Montreal Olympics to generate a picture-in-picture inset of the Olympic flaming torch while the rest of the picture featured the runner entering the stadium.

José Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and considered the painting among his best work.

In Reparation for which we have Condemned her to make honourable amends Disrobed, a Noose around her Neck, and carrying In her hands a flaming torch weighing two pounds before the main door and Entrance of the parish Church of This city where She will be taken And Led, by the executioner of the high Court, in a Tumbrel used for garbage, with an Inscription Front And Back, with the word, Incendiary, And there, bare-headed, And On her Knees, will declare that She maliciously set the fire And Caused the Said Burning, for which She repents And Asks Forgiveness from the Crown And Court, and this done, will have her fist Severed On a stake Erected in front of the Said Church.

Tools represented in other designs include: the brush, sickle, and hammer of the Workers ' Party of Korea ; the spade, flaming torch, and hoe used prior to 1984 by the British Labour Party ( which was a socialist and not a communist party ); the monkey wrench and tomahawk of the Earth First!

From the midpoint of this division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals, and sparks.

" Furthermore, Gervase writes, " From the midpoint of the division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks.

The previous logo used by the HRC ( then known as the HRCF ) featured a stylized flaming torch.

A black wavy band divides the two sides, and features heraldic symbols in gold representing technology ( a mechanical cog ), learning ( a flaming torch ) and commerce ( a gold coin ).

The shield of the university is inset into the head of the mace, as are golden symbols from the shield-the castle representing the city of Aberdeen, flaming torch, coin, and mechanical cog.

The rocky promontory is recorded in the Chartulary of Moray as Holyman's Head and it is said that Gervadius ( St Gerardine as he became known in later times ) would walk around the headland with a flaming torch to warn ships away from the dangerous rocks.

The field of the flag shall be blue with nineteen stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff.

Granny uses Mrs Gogol's own belief in the power of the voodoo doll to make the voodoo doll burst into flames when Granny thrusts her own arm into a flaming torch.

The Basic Recruiter Identification Badge is a silver crest that incorporates an eagle with raised wings straddling a flaming torch surrounded by a green banner with the words " U. S. Army Recruiter.

Dominican University of California ’ s motto is Veritas Fax Ardens, “ Truth, a flaming torch .” The school mascot is a penguin.

The standard Wide Awake uniform consisted of a full robe or cape, a black glazed hat, and a torch six feet in length to which a large, flaming, pivoting whale-oil container was mounted.

The party symbol was a flaming torch.

* Drip torch: hand-carried fire-starting device filled with flammable liquid that is poured across a flaming wick, dropping flaming liquid onto the fuels to be burned.

In his left hand, the Devil holds a great flaming torch inverted towards the earth.

A legend about Saint Dominic tells that before he was born, his mother had a dream in which she saw a dog carrying in its mouth a flaming torch, the torch of Truth, that his Order would eventually carry into the world.

He was no flaming liberal, yet the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him.

The concussion of the blast alone was sufficient to rip open the seams of the nearest ships, and flaming wreckage landed in a huge circle, much of it flying directly over the surrounding ships into the sea beyond.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

In the modern era, flaming was used at east coast engineering schools as a present participle in a crude expression to describe an irascible individual and by extension to such individuals on the earliest Internet chat rooms and message boards.

Internet flaming was mostly observed in the Usenet hierarchies although it was known to occur in the WWIVnet and FidoNet computer networks as well.

Dali considered the giraffe to be a symbol of masculinity, and a flaming giraffe was meant to be a " masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster ".

MacDonald was a political radical, and Isaac Asimov later recalled that Heinlein was, like her, " a flaming liberal.

The flaming chalice was initially the logo of the Unitarian Service Committee during the Second World War.

With flaming red hair and an endearing quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s and 1960s.

He was punished by being tied to a winged flaming wheel that was always spinning: first in the sky and then in Tartarus.

Denethor was holding the stone when he committed suicide on a funeral pyre, and afterwards the Stone was rendered virtually unusable, as only people of great strength would see in it anything other than two flaming withered hands.

It was however dangerous and flaming balls sometimes fell to the floor burning carpets and dresses, leading to their being banned in France and Germany.

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon ( Φλεγέθων, English translation: " flaming ") or Pyriphlegethon ( Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: " fire-flaming ") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron.

* Father of Dia and father-in-law of Ixion to-be, Deioneus was pushed by him into a bed of flaming coals so that Ixion wouldn't have to pay the bride price.

Thus, one attribute in use for some time was a flaming heart ( example ).

The scene of the ship's departure from Vulcan for Earth was more difficult to accomplish ; the camera pans behind live-action characters to follow the ship as it leaves the atmosphere, and other items like flaming pillars and a flaring sun had to be integrated into the shot.

One of the enemy's flaming arrows landed in the crib of the infant, Richard Mentor Johnson, but it was quickly doused by Johnson's sister Betsy.

Her shapeless dress was flaming red.

A 14-foot ( 4. 3-m ) marble cenotaph, consisting of an obelisk, topped by a flaming urn and a plaque with a quote from Horace, surrounded by an iron fence, was constructed approximately where Hamilton was believed to have fallen.

A regularly featured plot device was the transformation of the Phoenix into a flaming bird-shaped craft able to handle virtually any exceptional situation by functioning as a sort of giant, super blowtorch called the Fiery Phoenix.