Several years ago, at age 60, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight, or torch) had a seizure.
Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to light the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Raising the bloody shirt, he saw that the robber had taken half a dozen buckshot pellets in the stomach black angry holes seeping blood in the light of the torch.
"Prior to the electricity, we came in and had to come with a torch or a candle and light your gas, if you had gas, light your candles, " he said.
The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver fell to the ground, knives and forks and a silver candelabra, catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from the torch that Roscoe held.
The ceiling is shoulder height, and you are trying to repair a piece of heavy machinery by the light of a small torch.
In those last years, when my life seemed to have been shrouded in an invisible damp mist, she was the torch by whose weak and gentle light I could guide my steps.
It's believed that cave artists would fill the ladle with animal fat, light it and use it as a torch.
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Presley didn't just light up American culture, he put a torch to it.
Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.
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