To see them, all fire and flame and tenderness, at a trembling distance, lavishing caresses of eye and voice with every action, through every silence — their love driving them toward each other, and they withholding like fluttering moths, each to the other a candle-flame, and revolving each about the other in the mad gyrations of an amazing orbit-flight! ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jonathan's posted a short instructional video demonstrating a simple way to make a handsome plastic snail out of a cocktail stirrer by melting it over a candle-flame. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Where fire was, there they lurked; candle-flame, or gaslight, coal-fire or stoked box of a steam-boiler, burning hearth or burning forest-aIl held his informants, any of which could impart their observations to him. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)
Really, LG 16 is a douse of water of the candle-flame of missionary activity which countless of our forebears died to bring to heathens. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The three hims escorted her to a warm second floor bedroom where the lighting was a cosy candle-flame orange. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)
Certainly a child newly born in Boston, who gets a sensation from the candle-flame which lights the bedroom, or from his diaper-pin [who] does not feel either of these objects to be situated in longitude 71 ❋ Goodman, Russell (2006)
Each was swayed by the emotion within them, much as the candle-flame was swayed by the tempest without. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The first sensation of a resulting catastrophe was conveyed to their intelligence by the flapping of the candle-flame against the lantern-glass; then the wind, which hitherto they had heard rather than felt, rubbed past them like a fugitive. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Presently, just as the sun was setting, and shadows crossed the water, the sail (which had been gleaming like a candle-flame against the haze and upon the glaze) flickered and fell, and the bows swung round, and her figure was drawn upon the tideway. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Nanoannie liked her own wild curls, candle-flame blond, but this girl's style was, well, interesting. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As Carolyn's candle-flame burned the crimson of blood, Alison was already turning to Lauralee. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
Alison's triumph tasted sweet as the candle-flame flared green; it had been a risk, using that foreign deity-but she had wanted something uniquely western, and could think of no god more bloodthirsty than one of the ancient Aztecs. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
There was a soft vividness of life in their carriage; it reminded Siegmund of the soft swaying and lapping of a poised candle-flame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He cast his circle three times three, with each element'salt for earth, incense for air, a candle-flame for fire, and water. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)
In that interval, the cadaverous vision flickered like a guttering candle-flame—then vanished as though snuffed by the damp night-draft that whispered through the apertures of my window frame. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)
The old woman shrieked with sur-prise, and the wizard's glass at once went dark-puffed out like a candle-flame in a gust of wind. ❋ King, Stephen (1997)
He knows then, thought Lepidus, and anger flared in him like a candle-flame. ❋ Gemmell, David (1990)
Even by the weak flicker of candle-flame, they could see things had gone badly. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)
Reflections of retreating candle-flame gleamed against its wet, slimy cobbles, and the joints of the masonry walls were green-bearded with sparkling nitre. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)
