And there was only candlelight in the room.

The unhealthy candlelight from the room of death shone full on the gray and wrinkled face of Silas Blackburn.

" There is not a country-bred man or woman now living but will tell you that life can offer nothing comparable with the innocent zest of that old style of courting that was done at singing-school in the starlight and candlelight of the first half of our century.

Before the day was done, her work she sped, And never went by candlelight to bed: With exercise she sweat ill humours out, Her dancing was not hindered by the gout.

Why, we all knew that after the passing away of our mother he became a bookworm, reading very often by candlelight until morning.

I had a glimpse of him in the candlelight before stooping to feel my way down three or four narrow steps to the cellar, where the farmer ordinarily kept potatoes and vegetables.

It is very convenient, besides, because it enables me to converse by candlelight with persons who want to talk to me about their private affairs, instead of wasting daylight upon them.

"Manuel, lift me over the threshold!" Dom Manuel, recoiling, looked downward, and in the patch of candlelight between the shadows of his legs you could see a human head.