3 collocations for candle

After an experiment of two years, the preceding ration being found insufficient, it was increased, by act of Congress, July 16, 1798, and was as follows: beef one pound and a quarter, bread one pound two ounces; salt two quarts, vinegar four quarts, soap four pounds, and candles one and a half pounds to the hundred rations.

'Twill put out candle an' fire, an' thin in the darkness the Virgin Herself would be powerless to protect ye.' "Wentworth told me he laughed at this; chiefly because, as he put it:'One always must laugh at that sort of yarn, however it makes you feel inside.'

That the walls of his house were ceiled with jewels, shedding their accumulated lustre of years so that never candle need shine in the place, was well known.

3 collocations for  candle