162 Verbs to Use for the Word candle

After a moment, I struck another match, and, stumbling across the room, lit the candles.

Stooping quickly, I held the candle, and saw that the object I had kicked, was a large, metal ring.

And with this she dropped a stately curtsy, and, taking her candle, went away through the tapestry door which led to her apartments.

Thurston, however, rose to his feet, blew out the candle, and the four conspirators groped their way in a body out through the low doorway.

"I hope we don't have to burn candles or lamps.

In one way it was a fortunate thing for Diggory that he did not discover the note sooner, for hardly had Thurston set the lighted candle in the empty bottle than Noaks picked it up, and peered carefully into each of the four corners, and behind the heaps of benches and other lumber.

Taking these, I went down to the kitchen, carrying a lighted candle with me.

More than thirty years before, Puritanism had snuffed out its candles and driven its fiddlers to the streets.

Everything appeared to be in order, and I was on the point of extinguishing my candle, when the thought suggested itself to me to have another glance 'round the cellars.

I found, on counting, that I had brought fifteen candles, in the bundlemy first intention having been, as I have already said, to make a torch of the lot.

It occurred to me that, if I placed my candles 'round the edge of the hole, I should be able to get, at least, some dim sight of the place.

Then he came out, putting out the candle, and buttoning the Bible inside of his coat.

I placed the powder and ball where they could reach them easily, shaded a candle so that it threw its light only on the floor beside them, gave them a few directions about loading, and rejoined Brightson at his loophole.

Jack meanwhile had struck a match, and soon found the candles on the night-table near the bed.

With a sudden resolution he snatched the candle from the mantelpiece and held the flame to White's finger.

" He gave her the candle and followed her to the passage.

" The girls crept into bed, careful to leave their candles burning.

"Yes; are you broke?" "I am, and the next time I go into Annapolis I mean to buy some candles.

and dropped his candle.

So I just turned right 'round, picked up the two candles off the mantelpiece, and walked across to the table near the bed.

A. A man that buys and sells candles of different sorts.

"Now, it might be," he started to say, again looking serious, "that all this fuss ain't worth the candle, and that nothin' 's going to happen; but I believe in shuttin' the door before the hoss is stolen; it's too late afterwards.

The church was already so crowded that it was almost impossible to enter; the centre was one great flower-garden of headdresses of kneeling women, and in the aisles were penitents, toiling round the church upon their knees, each bearing a lighted candle.

Aristabulus had never before sat down to as brilliant a table, and for the first time in his life, he saw candles lighted at a dinner; but he was not a man to be disconcerted at a novelty.

"Gracious, it's a house!" cried Billie, moving her candle about in an effort to light up the corners of the place.

162 Verbs to Use for the Word  candle