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Example sentences for "candlelight"

Lexicographically close words:
candidum; candidus; candied; candies; candle; candlepower; candles; candlestick; candlesticks; candlewood
  1. By and by comes Cooper, and he and I by candlelight at my modell, being willing to learn as much of him as is possible before he goes.

  2. Shading him with her hand, which the candlelight made lucent as a shell, she watched him lying there, his fingers clasped tightly round a coral hung with silver bells, his woolly lamb beside his cheek.

  3. In the bewitching candlelight the keyboard trembled and shimmered like water to a low wind.

  4. The candlelight fluttered and jigged in the seaside room, while Mr. Neech, The Ingoldsby Legends and the oratories of Christchurch became more and more hopelessly confused.

  5. Then, just as the candlelight was gasping and shimmering blue in the bowl of the candlestick, he fell asleep.

  6. Home they would come drenched with dew, and arm in arm they would steal up the dusky garden to the rose-red lamps and twinkling golden candlelight of Cobble Place.

  7. The candlelight sprayed her flowing chestnut hair with a golden mist that might have been an aureole over which the apple-green bows floated unsubstantial like amazing moths.

  8. The dusk was thickening fast; Burr and the two young men who were working with him were hurrying to finish the decorations before candlelight when Richard Hautville came in.

  9. When at last the candlelight went out in the great kitchen he crept stiffly and wearily through the snow.

  10. Runners came in white-faced and shaking, after frightful journeys, and officers bent to the candlelight to read scribbled messages sent down by hard-pressed men.

  11. With the candlelight behind him, the man's face was in darkness, and Daoud tensed himself.

  12. The candlelight seemed to flicker, and he nearly fainted.

  13. It gleamed in the candlelight as he drew it from its sheath.

  14. As they walked into the court they saw the uncertain candlelight diffused from the room of death.

  15. The stout, bent figure in the candlelight studied them suspiciously.

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

  17. One glance at her face in the candlelight seemed to tell all.

  18. Only the chancel was lighted up, the rest of the church was dark, but the first gleams of dawn, were now struggling through the eastern window against the candlelight on the altar and the gaslight on the choir.

  19. Now the touch of the darns under her hand brought back the long hours of mending by candlelight which had had their share in despoiling her of her sight.

  20. By the uncertain candlelight Daddy read as follows:-- Dear Brother, Rite to me and Cissy rite off.

  21. Up by candlelight to start with dawn, which shines not till seven: for, though the mornings have become painfully cold, the mid-day sun is scarcely bearable.

  22. You came to me through the candlelight When the day was done, and the misty night Crept through the land.

  23. They turned round then and walked slowly back to the cottage, and entered the candlelight and the loud talk of many men out of the hush of the twilight.

  24. They returned then to the house, the garden behind them with its dim hushed air of a secret, before them the candlelight like a different land.

  25. Firelight and candlelight together caught the shadow of the woman in the chair and flung it large and leaping over wall and ceiling.

  26. He stood irresolute, looking at her; the candlelight could give no colour to his fair face.

  27. Beyond the candlelight stood a girl in a much-frilled rose-coloured muslin gown, holding in her hand a bunch of drooping wild pinks.

  28. For an instant in the candlelight the hair was golden, not dark, the pallid skin a damask rose.

  29. Ben's mother was sewing, in her favorite small chair by the fireplace, the day's work never quite ended, candlelight mild on her dark face and her fingers that hurried because she was troubled.

  30. The pensive beauty was too much for Pauline, who wished that she could shut out the obstinate day and read by candlelight such a book as Alice in Wonderland until it was time to go to bed.

  31. By candlelight she wrote to Richard, seated at the small desk that was full of childish things.

  32. Nevertheless it was in a mood of almost elated self-congratulation that Guy found himself hurrying through the orchard toward the candlelight of his room.

  33. In the candlelight her new ring sparkled; and when her mother was gone she put beside it the crystal ring, and it seemed to sparkle still more.

  34. Manifestations have been observed by me, and by many others, both by candlelight and daylight.

  35. He goes to the next table, sits down and in the dim candlelight he can just be seen listening to the conversation.

  36. And I blinked as I went out of the white November sunshine into Macartney's new tunnel, and the candlelight of his humming stope.

  37. She was dead white in the dim candlelight that shone through Marcia's half-open door.

  38. You may judge of our joy when we read on, day after day, hurrying over household work in the morning, neglecting our walks abroad, and wasting candlelight in the evening the more to enjoy it.

  39. Dick watched her as she went upstairs, the candlelight shining tenderly upon her sweet face, and thus betrayed himself to Dorothy, who had suspected for some time that he loved Elaine.

  40. Dick privately considered the whole thing more or less of a nuisance, but the candlelight touched Elaine's golden hair lovingly, and the glow from the fire seemed to rest caressingly upon her face.

  41. Just the same, Mrs. Browning's warning that "colours seen by candlelight do not look the same by day" is not truly applicable to these Village shrines.

  42. Another night you may arrive at exactly the same time and there will be only candlelight and a few groups, talking in low tones.

  43. Rose played the piano in the candlelight for a little while before she slipped out of the room.

  44. Across the candlelight she looked at Henrietta kindly and Henrietta remembered the three thousand pounds.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candlelight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dusk; gloaming; lamp; light; twilight