When he turned hack to relight the candle, it was gone.

"Can human skill relight the lamps that the power of the Star has extinguished?" was the reply of another.

it is very cold, cannot I relight my cigar here?" Another voice immediately issued from a second cell, and said, "What!

When you talk like that, I'd like to relight at once the sulphur cord I threw away!"

and, taking the matches from the table, I walked across the room in a leisurely manner, to relight the corner again.

He groped for his tinder-box, and having found it, proceeded to relight the tiny tallow dip.

So impressed were all with this feeling, that when, in less than half an hour, the rain entirely ceased, the clouds cleared off, and the stars again poured down their lustre, no one attempted to relight the quenched embers, fearing to provoke the Divine vengeance.

The rule of celibacy imposed on the Vestals, whose duty it was to relight the sacred fire as well as to preserve it when it was once made, is perhaps explained by a superstition current among French peasants that if a girl can blow up a smouldering candle into a flame she is a virgin, but that if she fails to do so, she is not.

In vain the men tugged and strained at their oars while the gunner worked like a maniac to relight his linstock and to replace his priming.

That makes a madman of me.' He drank, and struck a match to relight his pipe.

Swinburne himself may have had those words in mind when, writing also of Garibaldi, he said of freedom: "She, without shelter or station, She, beyond limit or bar, Urges to slumberless speed Armies that famish, that bleed, Sowing their lives for her seed, That their dust may rebuild her a nation, That their souls may relight her a star.

This done, he tests the new connection, relights his woodbine, and splashes his way back to Headquarters.

" Sanchez nodded, carelessly striking flint and steel in an effort to relight a cheroot, and Fairfax turned his head toward me.

"Not in fighting," amended Valencia, his teeth gleaming white in the fire-glow, as he leaned to pull a brand from the blaze that he might relight the cigarette which had gone out while he told the tale of that running fight, when the two Americanos had shamed a whole crowd of gringosfor so did Valencia make nice distinction of names.