" She turned the wick of the spirit-lamp, and the peaceful music of the samovar was still.

Some accurate shot had cut the burning wick out of the lamp with his bullet, so nicely placed that, though the lamp reeled, it did not fall.

He placed his hands around this, lighted the wick from the taper, which he at once crushed between his fingers, and the trick was done.

Every morning she used to rub them well and trim the wicks.

Just before we pulled out Rosenthal came and blew out the lamp, leaving the wick to smoke abominably.

You are curious to know whither so many are wending their way, and meeting a sailor-boy, he tells you it is "fifth day," and if you follow in the wake of the "slick bonnets," they will pilot you to their nearest light-house; but precious little light you will get unless the spirit move some of them to pick up the wick.

It happened that a rat, carrying in its mouth the wick of a lamp, set one of the streamers or canopies on fire, which caught the vihâra, and the seven stories were all consumed.

Instructions for assembling and adjusting mechanism and replacing lubricating wicks of high speed machines 81-60, 81-65, 81-70, 81-72, 81-73, 81-76, and 81-78.

The room was lighted by half-a-dozen candles, having wicks only a trifle smaller than the grease which enveloped them, in candlesticks that were never used but at high-days, holy-days, and family feasts.

They wanted to blow up their cross grandpapa, so they took a pound of powder from their father's room, put it in a bottle, inserted a wick, and placed it under their grandfather's chair, when he was dozing after dinner; but soldiers marched by with the band playingand this was the only thing that prevented them from carrying out their plan.

" ARGAND, a Swiss physician and chemist, born at Geneva; inventor of the argand lamp, which, as invented by him, introduced a circular wick (1755-1803).

A good deal of heat was obtained by making large wicks of canvass, and placing them in vessels that contained oil; though it was very far from sufficing to keep life in the men during the hardest of the weather.

One more indignant, hopeless glare at the flickering candle-end, then I pinched the wick, curled up, and went to sleep.

He poured the water from the chamber of his lamp and pulled out the wick and pressed it.

" Lizzie raised the wick of the lamp in accordance with his desire, and then sat down with an expression of annoyance and vexation on her countenance.

I meanwhile from my post on high Ne'er from my master turn an eye, Look at him now, with far-off gaze Pondering, testing every phrase; The snuffer once he seizes quick And cleans of soot the flaming wick; Then oft in deep abstraction, he Murmurs a sentence audibly, Which I with outstretched bill peck up And fill with lore my eager crop.

When the shrine is reached, one of the brothers steps forward with a winnowing-fan, the edge of which is plastered with ghi and supports a lighted wick; and as he steps up to the shrine, the relations and friends of the deceased again press forward and place offerings of fruit and flowers in the fan.

Brossard was calling angrily for Jules now, and she struck another match in nervous haste, this time touching the wick with it before the wind could interfere.

Her hair is perfectly white, Celiaor," he said vaguely to himself, "was it something she wore?like the bandeaux of the Sisters of Charity" The lighted candle fell from Celia's nerveless fingers and rolled over and over across the floor, trailing a smoking wick.

I remember the lump of bees-wax with which I made candles in my African adventure; but I had none of that now; the only remedy I had was, that when I had killed a goat, I saved the tallow; and with a little dish made of clay, which I baked in the sun, to which I added a wick of some oakum, I made me a lamp; and this gave me light, though not a clear steady light like a candle.

They'd twist wicks and put em in tallow.

Having set down her pot, the daughter, a rather wild-looking person with sun-baked face and large gleaming eyes, took an old-fashioned brass dish-lampa deformed and vulgar descendant of the agate lamp held in the hand of the antique priestessand, after bringing the wick towards the lip, lighted it.

But Russell said quietly, "There's something on your head, Wright," and the little boy putting up his hand, hastily brushed off the horrid wick.

" The flame of the match caught the wick, and flared up, throwing a dim illumination over the cabin interior.

Finally, the influx of air produced by this chimney permits of burning, without smoke and without charring the wick, those oils of poor quality that are unfortunately too often met with in commerce.