Seizing a blazing branch the man cast it straight into the face of the lion.

An agony of pain shot through his shoulder, seared for half a foot by the blazing branch.

Shere Khan's ears lay flat back on his head, and he shut his eyes, for the blazing branch was very near.

He stooped to the fire, picked up a blazing branch, and slipped in an instant through a sallyport which he had made in our gateway.