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Meanings of carrying a torch in английском

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Usage of carrying a torch in английском
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Echozar walked back with her and Jonayla and Wolf, carrying a torch.
The Land of Painted Caves
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But please light my lamp. He was carrying a torch.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Her childhood sweetheart, Sam, is there, still carrying a torch.
Reuters
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So he was not carrying a torch for her, as far as Fiona was concerned.
Second chance
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Their captured bandit guide, Jak, led carrying a torch while two of Pon-lor's soldiers followed.
Blood and Bone
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It is one of the rascals carrying a torch.
The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendun...
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Draya opened the door to the Hall and went inside, carrying a torch with her.
Bones of the Dragon
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Only Robertson seemed quite indifferent and trudged along stolidly after a man carrying a torch.
She and Allan
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He was carrying a torch by then, something which seemed, of late, to be his lot.
The wandering fire
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A tall figure now appeared walking toward the gate, followed by a slave carrying a torch.
The Spartan Twins
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You've been carrying a torch for him forever.
Michael's discovery
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So the maids went out carrying a torch and got the two beds ready in all haste.
The Iliad
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The commandant of the fort entered in full uniform, accompanied by a police agent carrying a torch.
The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
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Fifteen monks followed, each carrying a torch.
Scarlet
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For a superviolet drafter, it was like carrying a torch whose light was invisible to everyone else.
The black prism
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He had been carrying a torch in the procession, and this was stuck into a ring on the wall.
At Agincourt
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