A score of candles lit up the white timbers of the entrance chamber of the Fort.
Two at a time may sail their boats, lighting the candles as they are launched.
Have the candles different colors suggestive of the months they represent, such as, green for March and red for December.
A large cake with as many different colored candles on it as there are guests, is passed around, and each one takes a piece of it, with the candle too, choosing whatever color they wish.
The shutters were shut and there were twelve candles on the table, one for each of Roberta's years.
Peter was at the door of Mother's writing room, where Mother sat at her table with two candlesin front of her.
Candles which cast a flickering light were placed on the table, making the room ghostly enough.
After a hasty meal, I ordered candles and returned to my room to read, while Will went out to see the town.
I thought of the candles in the church, and wondered how I could get at them.
On the last occasion Alice Manisty sprang to her feet, went to the side table where the candles were placed, disappeared and did not return.
Then, as Eleanor approached him, he raised his shoulders with a gesture that only she saw, and led her a few steps apart in the dimly lighted ante-room, where the candles were placed.
Between the Pope and the King was a wooden table on which two large candles were burning.
Through the door of the church, when the leather covering was lifted, there came the yellow light of the candles burning on the altar.
Then the priest took off an outer cloak, revealing his white surplice and violet stole, and followed the candles into the Countess's room.
Two boys in blue and white carried candles by his side.
Four candleswere burning on chairs at the head and two at the feet.
The priest was to be instructed to buy many candles and order several Frati.
She knew it was not wise to burn two candles at once.
They reached the boat safely and while Trot was untying the rope Cap'n Bill reached into a crevice of the rock and drew out several tallow candles and a box of wax matches, which he thrust into the capacious pockets of his "sou'wester.
That was Cap'n Bill's business, however, and now that he added the candles and the matches to his collection Trot made no comment, for she knew these last were to light their way through the caves.
The old sailor drew one of the candles from his right-side pocket and the tin matchbox from his left-side pocket.
She was accompanied by the Lady Tyrwhitt, her sister the Lady Herbert, by the King’s niece the Lady Jane Grey, and by the Lady Lane, who bore the candles before Her Majesty.
In the sixteenth century these were the only lights to be had, except oil lamps and wax candles imported at immense expense from France and Italy, and only kindled on high days and holidays.
The light of the candles attracted many insects, among which was observed a large species of Scarabaeus.
Don't you be trying any candles on us," she threatened him, in a jocular bass.
The little boxes of Christmas-tree candles held half a dozen apiece, assorted colours.
In the year 1776, my boy, this Slidell sold candles in New York, and was born about two years after the marriage of the elder Slidell.
But first in the chamber whereas the dead bodie is, or at the entrie, they set a table with candles on it, and full of bread and fruits of diuers sorts.
There one would walk through music between great candles under eternal stars, hand-in-hand with a tall white figure.
They had put candles about him, and the outline of his face, showing dimly through the linen that veiled it, was like the face of one who sleeps very peacefully.
It was supper-time, and Lavendale sat at the head of his table, with Lady Polwhele on his right hand and Lady Judith on his left, in a room brilliant with the light of multitudinous waxcandles and the blaze of a huge wood fire.
The shining scarlet berries, the rich red and purple and gold of the Bristol china, the silver tankards and silver-gilt bowls shining under the light of the candles or reflecting the flame of the fire, produced a dazzling effect.
The extra candles were used on special occasions, such as the reception of friends from home, and so forth.
We were quite prepared for the quiet, old-fashioned upper hall, with its richness half lost in the shadows and with its sleepy night-stand holding a brass house lantern and a prim array of candles in brass candlesticks.
The green bayberry candles grew dim, and in their fragrant smoke the old colonials faded away.
Little groups gathered about the card tables, where fresh candles and ivory counters were waiting.
Evidently, by colonial time, twilight was coming on; for now the fragrant bayberry candles were lighted.
But even after we had pictured the mysterious chambers all hung round with mirrors, just like Pope's, and candles everywhere, we could see that so tame a thing as the grotto theory would never do.
It was like a hundred candles suddenly brought into a dark room," Betty said, snipping off her thread.
More than four hundred guests sat down to that table, over which twelve hundred waxen candles shed their radiance.
Both cards and candles I offered to Miss Moore, and she accepted them, sniffing with childlike ecstasy at the candles, which are supposed to give forth, in burning, the perfume which the bayberries pour out in the heat of the sun.
I bought also, at the same shop, a pretty little box containing three green candles made of bayberry wax.
Out in the cold and chilly hall he lit our candles and took us upstairs.
Silence produced his candles and we heard preparations for striking matches.
The air was keen and frosty, perfumed with night smells, and exquisitely fresh; all the million candles of the sky were alight, and a faint breeze rose and fell with far-away sighings in the tops of the pine trees.
Silence lit three candles and handed one to each of us.
The atmosphere, heavily charged with faint yet pungent odours, lay utterly still, and the flames of the candles might have been painted on the air for all the movement they betrayed.
It was in front of these doors that Mata now placed two lighted candles in tall bronze holders.
Within, the flickering yellow light of the candles danced through the room, touching now the old face, now the young, each set hard in its own lines of concentrated thought.
The Harvester touched a match to a few candles and turned out the acetylene lights.
Candles were our grandmothers' lights and they are the best anyway.
Then there is solid cheer in numbers of candlesand a roaring wood fire.
Then he made the cabin a glamour of light by putting candles in the sticks he had carved and placing them everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
