458 examples of guttered in sentences

With the kind of father you had we might have died in the gutter but for how she helped to keep us out, you ungrateful girlyour poor old grandmother, that's suffered so terrible!"

'Tis just like Puss defendant in a Gutter.

For as we leave the level land and flee to the mountains to spend our vacation, so will a child avoid the street and seek the gutter and the bank on the unimproved lot to enjoy its pastime."

Then to my room, where over innumerable pipes of sweet-scented, I struggled with some halting verses of my own until my candle guttered in its stick.

A breeze was springing up and the candle which Marcos had set on a table near the open window guttered.

And so the candle guttered down one side till but little tallow was left above the pin; for though the flame grew pale and paler to the view in the growing morning light, yet it burnt freely all the time.

But do what I would the wind came gusting round the corner, blowing the flame to one side, and making the candle gutter as another candle guttered on that black day at the Why Not?

" "Feel sleepy?" The candle guttered and flickered on the floor midway between the two bunks, and Bard, glancing to it, was about to move from his bed and snuff it; but at the thought of so doing it seemed to him as if he could almost sense with prophetic mind the upward dart of the noose about his shoulders.

" The candle guttered wildly on the floor.

o' the gutter, too.

Over the window is nothing but the flat face of the gable-end; but to the right, and a foot or two above the level of the top of the window, an iron gutter ends.

If a tall man stood on the end of the window-sill, steadying himself by the left hand and leaning to the right, he could just touch the end of this gutter with his right hand.

Below was a clear drop into darkness, and above was plain wall; but away to one side, where the slope of the gable sprang from the roof, an iron gutter ended, supported by a strong bracket.

She was as different from the Matilda of the luncheon table as the swollen and guttered face of woe in real life is different from the graceful tragedy of the stage.

You would have been in the gutter now if I had not had the generosity to marry you.

I should have been left, as Augustus was unchivalrous enough to tell me this morning, 'in the gutter.'

For once you must have been wrong, and it would have been better for me to have worked in the gutter!

The flat roof, tiled across, and guttered so as to allow the rainwater to escape, at first seemed closed in on all sides with walls over six feet high.

So when Manuel had come to two times eleven the tall fire guttered as though it bended under the passing of a strong wind: then the flames burned high, and Manuel could see that he was grasping the throat of a monstrous pig.

" Again the tall flames guttered.

The cook had gone; fire smouldered in the range; and a single candle guttered in its tin cup on the table.

The candle guttered.

Centuries (perhaps) of exposure to weather had so cracked, guttered, and gnawed this destructible material, that at a distance the pile looked not unlike the natural monuments which fire and water have builded in this enchanted land, and had therefore not been recognized by the travellers as human handiwork.

Two miles away, in the middle of the plain, appeared a ruin of adobe walls, guttered and fissured by the weather.

There stood in a corner near the door a triangular iron stand stuck full of votive tapers that flickered and sputtered and guttered dismally, shedding showers of penitential grease-drops on the paved floor below; and there was a very old peasant woman on her knees before the altar.

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