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Sentences starting with candles

Candles had been brought to light the long desk or dais where sat the Bailly in his great chair, and the twelve scarlet-robed jurats. [11]
Candles were burning at his head and his feet, and two peasants sat dozing in chairs near by. [11]

Sentences ending with candles

A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
When the Fosters were poor, they could have been trusted with untold candles. [5]
Some twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between two candles. [2]
Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. [5]
He gathered his thin fingers in a bunch at his lips, and made an airy salute to the warm space between the candles. [11]
The placing of these millions added seriously and most uncomfortably to the family expenses--in tallow candles. [5]
About most of them were lighted candles. [4]
Did Janet reca' the simmer nights they had supped here, wi' the bumclocks bizzin' ower the candles? [9]
Near by was the sarcophagus, lighted by the dripping candles. [5]
Then he said that his first wife was such a cook, that when she died he paid for an extra Mass and twelve very fine candles. [11]

Short sentences using candles

Other candles were lighted. [4]
Do you like candles? [5]

Sentences containing candles two or more times

Aleck, in her dream life, went over to the Episcopal camp, on account of its large official titles; next she became High-church on account of the candles and shows; and next she naturally changed to Rome, where there were cardinals and more candles. [5]

More example sentences with the word candles in them

The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
He forgot his words as he looked into her eyes: they were lighted as with all the candles of heaven in his honour. [9]
It was ablaze with candles, and I caught glimpses of fine gentlemen and ladies in the rooms. [9]
It was he who must snuff the candles, and put on a stick of wood, and toast the cheese, and turn the apples, and crack the nuts. [4]
When their eyes were turned from the fitful blaze of the logs, the gala light of many candles greeted them. [9]
Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi. [2]
Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill. [5]
Yet if I were but allowed candles, or a lantern, or a torch, some books, paper, pencil, and tobacco, and the knowledge that I had not killed Juste Duvarney, I could abide the worst with some sort of calmness. [11]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
That night we went down the lightning-rod a little after ten, and took one of the candles along, and listened under the window-hole, and heard Jim snoring; so we pitched it in, and it didn't wake him. [5]
At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. [5]
Scarcely a word was spoken by his captors, and he did not know who they were, until, after a long detour, he was brought inside a manor-house, and there, in the light of flaring candles, faced Perrot and Iberville. [11]
Turning round, she was full in the light of the candles and the shooting flames of the fire. [11]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
The assembly hall was filled when we arrived, aglow with candles and a-tremble with music, the powder already flying, and the tables in the recesses at either end surrounded by those at the cards. [9]
The great banqueting-hall was bright as day--even brighter, from the light of thousands of candles whose rays were reflected in the gold plates forming the panelling of the walls. [10]
After that there was a roar of merriment over Mr. Storer cracking mottoes with a certain Lady Jane; and how young Lord Stavordale, on a wager, tilted the candles and set fire to the drawing-room at Lady Julia's drum, the day before. [9]
Then she found two candles and lighted them, placing them on the mantel, and turning to the crasset hanging by its osier rings from a beam, slowly lighted it. [11]
Between the trees twinkled lights of cottage candles, and far down flared bright windows of the village stores. [13]
I read them twice over, and then, despite the lateness of the hour, I sat staring at the candles, reflecting upon my own helplessness. [9]
Through the entrance to the restaurant Honora caught sight of the red glow of candles upon the white tables, and heard the hum of voices. [9]
But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. [5]
He was forbid to light the candles after dinner. [9]
When we were tired at last we sat down and ate, for he had soap and candles and I had brought along some blubber. [5]
The proprietor of this tunnel took candles and conducted us into it. [5]
On the birthdays these cakes were surrounded by as many candles as we numbered years, and provision was always made for a dainty arrangement of gifts. [10]
The candles were then extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and he was told that he would now see the lesser light. [2]
The candles threw their light across his shoulder on the face of the elder Monsieur de St. Gre. [9]
The candles threw their flickering rays upward until they danced on the high ceiling. [9]
It was against the time when down in your world there they have feastings, and in the churches the grand songs and many candles on the altars. [11]
The scene of the third act represented a palace in which many candles were burning and pictures of knights with short beards hung on the walls. [2]
In the center, the soft red glow of the candles, the gleaming silver, the shining cloth, the Church on one side--and what on the other? [9]
When Charley entered, the room was only lighted by two candles, and Paulette's face was hidden by a veil, but Charley observed the tremulousness of the figure and the nervous decision of manner. [11]
Tallow candles furnished the light for the bedrooms, a whale-oil lamp furnished it for the parlor. [5]
At eight o'clock the largest bell was struck, and the Signora and all her household, including the house servants, went out to the little chapel in the garden, which was suddenly lighted with candles, gleaming brilliantly through the orange groves. [4]
Then she stirred the fire, threw a log upon it, snuffed the candles, hastily put on her moccasins, fur coat, wool cap, and gloves, and went to the door quickly, the dog at her heels. [11]
The candlesticks, with the dozens of candles, the elegant silver dishes, the whole manner of the reception, led her to make the suggestion. [10]
She had watched the day decline, the evening come, and the lighting of the crassets and the candles, and had waited to hear the words that meant more to her than her own life. [11]
Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our hands and knees. [5]
The candles in the candelabrum were already half burned down when Fran Dubois at last urged going to rest. [10]
It was a strange meeting they had in St. Xavier's, by the light of the candles on the altar. [9]
The candles burn so low, and there is a smell of wick, and the grease runs here and there down the great candlesticks. [11]
That night he slept not at all, but sat, while the candles flickered in their sockets, poring over maps and papers. [9]
He sent the sleepy servant to rest, and paced anxiously to and fro for a short time; then he pushed Ulrich's portrait of Sophonisba nearer the mantel-piece, where countless candles were burning in lofty sconces. [10]
A bewildered, almost shrinking look came into Sir William's eyes, as the other stood full in the light of the candles. [11]
Before my eyes she flung aloft her beautiful arm with the flashing steel, which glittered in the light of the candles in the many-branched candelabra beside the sarcophagi. [10]
In the outlying serfs' quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. [2]
They were unremarkable, save in the case of two tall silver candlesticks, which, with their candles at an angle from the musician, gave his face strange lights and shadows. [11]
That night Charley sat in the tailor's bedroom, rigid and calm, though racked with pain, and watched the candles flickering beside the dead body. [11]
Now this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. [2]
No gas to read by--nothing but dismal candles. [5]
These are the proportions of a candle; and fair and fairylike candles these are. [5]
He had a procession, with candles and incense and banners, and marched around the edge of the wood and exorcised the dragon, and it was never heard of again, although it was the opinion of many that the smell never wholly passed away. [5]
It was a poor apartment, with a shabby bed and some odds and ends of old furniture in it, and was vaguely lighted by a couple of sickly candles. [5]
Orders were as plentiful in his drawing-room as the candles. [9]
And some one pays for the candles and the cards. [11]
If they put our candles out it will be an awful fix. [5]
The troubled fires of the Indians had died to embers long before the candles were snuffed in the garrison house and the music ceased. [9]
The red glow of light from the shaded candles on the table, and the corners of the dining room filled with gloom. [9]
His business was not with these stiff-jointed, slow-witted graziers, but with the supple, dangerous, far-seeing men who sit scheming by the gas-light in the great cities, after all the lamps and candles are out from the Merrimac to the Housatonic. [6]
His eyes had not wavered from the space between the candles. [11]
And yet that night she lighted the candles at the dead man's head and feet, dragging herself thither in the cold; and in her heart she said that the smile on Antoine's face was deeper than it had been before. [11]
The cavern was nearly a hundred yards long, and when we reached its inner limit the proprietor stepped into a branch tunnel with his candles and left us buried in the bowels of the glacier, and in pitch-darkness. [5]
I'd spend all my savings to buy for the saints as many candles as my mother has in her little shop, if that would change things. [10]
The organ was muttering, censers were swinging, candles were glinting on the distant altar and robed priests were filing silently past them; the scene was one to sweep all frivolous thoughts away and steep the soul in a holy calm. [5]
There are few more pathetic events recorded in history than this weeping, helpless, praying crowd, holding their lighted candles and kneeling on the pavement beneath the prison walls of the old fortress. [5]
It really was Melyukovka, and maids and footmen with merry faces came running, out to the porch carrying candles. [2]
She sat a long time looking at the receding line of candles reflected in the glasses and expecting (from tales she had heard) to see a coffin, or him, Prince Andrew, in that last dim, indistinctly outlined square. [2]
The rooms were lighted by oil lamps and candles, while the servants burned tallow-dips. [10]
Boy began to light the candles. [4]
Then by the light of the flickering torch and flaring candles I watched her feelings play upon her face as the warm light of autumn shifts upon the glories of ripe fruits. [11]
Come, we will light candles for Jean, and comb his hair back sweet, and masses shall be said, and--" Again the woman interrupted, quieting him. [11]
Suddenly a flickering light arose ahead of us, and another, and we saw that they were candles beginning to twinkle through the palings of the fort. [9]
Put candles around it, as many as can be found! [10]
When it fell it wiped out a considerable raft of stars just as clean as if they'd been candles and somebody blowed them out. [5]
Mr. X pranced in, in his long night-garment, with a candle, young Z after him with another candle; a procession swept in at another door, with candles and lanterns--landlord and two German guests in their nightgowns and a chambermaid in hers. [5]
The footmen came in with sad and stern faces to change the candles, but no one noticed them. [2]
Thousands of candles in the chandeliers and candelabra diffused a radiance as brilliant as that of day and, confused by the noise and waves of light which surged around her, she had drawn closer to her father, clinging to him for protection. [10]
Evening found us in the cars; they lighted candles in spring-candle-sticks; odd enough I thought it in the land of oil-wells and unmeasured floods of kerosene. [6]
To be buried in such ground was regarded by the ancient Pisans as being more potent for salvation than many masses purchased of the church and the vowing of many candles to the Virgin. [5]
His mother lay in a wretched pauper's coffin, a ragged camp-follower watched beside her--no candles burned at her head, no priest prayed for the salvation of her soul! [10]
We all got in a big room in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the new couple. [5]
It seemed as if the very light of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. [2]
Arrived at the hut, he entered and shut the door; lighted candles, and spread the embossed parchment out before him upon the table. [11]
The little old housekeeper came in, chirped a soft good-evening, flashed a small thankful smile at Medallion, and, after renewing the bowl and lighting two more tall candles, disappeared. [11]
For instance, a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. [5]
In front of him are candles, and he stare between them, and stare and stare. [11]
Even as I hesitated there came a knock at the door, and Scipio entered, bearing candles. [9]
He thought of her now as one for whom the candles had been lighted and masses had been said. [11]
Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. [5]
For a while he did not speak, but busied himself with his papers, I having lighted the candles for him. [9]
His inveterate curiosity had served him well, and he had paid fairly for the candles of his game. [11]
As the room had remained unused for months, bats had made nests there, and now that it was lighted, dazzled by the glare of the lamps and candles, they darted to and fro above the heads of the assembly. [10]
At last he had had the simple meal Dr. Leiden allowed him, his candles were snuffed, and my uncle and I made our way to the hall together: There my aunt and Mr. Allen were at picquet. [9]
Only when Bennigsen had entered the hut did Kutuzov leave his corner and draw toward the table, but not near enough for the candles that had been placed there to light up his face. [2]
Meanwhile it had grown dark, and the Beguine Paulina brought in a two-branched candelabrum with burning candles. [10]
It was a great, rambling house, with dull corridors and wide staircases which the flaring candles seemed to make more gloomy. [12]
When we were got beyond these topics the rain had ceased, the night had fallen, the green candles had burned low. [9]
If you will go there, and get upon your knees, and pray till the candles no more burn, and the Popish images crumble in their places, you will yet never understand myself or any woman. [11]
The light required for this purpose was diffused by a couple of tallow candles and also by the coals which heated the irons. [10]

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