Examples of bonfire

• Bonfires with some older person in attendance are safe enough and prevent unlawful bonfires in dangerous places. 

• In every town in the country bonfires were lighted, and every colonial assembly sent thanks to the King. 

• Of course it should be a whopping big bonfire, with a parade and speeches and singing and plenty of music! 

• There were also games, dances, street bonfires in front of building doors, and general relaxation of social controls. 

• Young people and children dance and sing round the bonfires, and leap over the embers to secure good crops or a happy marriage within the year, or as a means of guarding themselves against colic. 

• In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.

• London and its environs blazed with bonfires, and church bells tolled all day long.

• There may indeed be nuisances or minor acts of trespass between neighbours, such as garden bonfires or music played too loudly, which can cause distress.