Mark the flambeaux guttering and sputtering into an odorous death.
Clare was still asleep in the armchair, but presently the stealthy cold waked him and he jumped up; the candles were guttering away; the burgundy was drunk; the room smelt stale.
When he reentered the library the candle was guttering in the burned wings of a night-moth.
Dawn was paling the guttering candle and streaking the sky outside before she composed herself.
Only on the ledge in front of the guichet there was a guttering tallow candle at the disposal of the inquirers.
Those men at the front who are receiving the Holy Communion before the battle have little barns for their service, with flickering andguttering candles.
But we ought not to be dependent upon it; we ought to recognise that the heart of the thing is also in the poor barn and the guttering candle.
When his cousin and new-found friend had gone Dirk sat for a while, till the guttering tallow lights overhead burned to the sockets indeed.
Then I shall be all alone here," Peter said suddenly, staring at the candle that was guttering in the breeze that came from behind the heavy blinds.
If it had all happened at once after he had come in then he might have endured it, but this waiting and listening with the candle guttering was too much for him.
OLD SUSAN When Susan's work was done, she would sit, With one fat guttering candle lit, And window opened wide to win The sweet night air to enter in.
There, with a thumb to keep her place, She would read, with stern and wrinkled face, Her mild eyes gliding very slow Across the letters to and fro, While wagged the guttering candle flame In the wind that through the window came.
Petullo and the Count were still intently talking; the tragedy was in the poor light of a guttering candle.
It had been a night of horror; a night without sleep; a night, after the guttering candle had gone out, when the blackness of the garret possessed added terrors created by an imagination which ran riot, and which she could not control.
There was only the guttering candle in the gin bottle to give light.
Rorke had found the key, left the bottle with the short stub of guttering candle standing on the floor, and was back again.
They turned now and went back, in the wake of thatguttering candle, till they came again to the humbler part of the building.
And reverently he touched its pages once again; he bent and by the guttering light tried to make out a few words here or there upon the crackled, all but perished leaves.
The dark scene, blue-lit by the guttering torches, grew ever more sanguinary, more incredibly hideous.
Connie lighted the wick in the copper pan and together the two sat upon a robe and, in the guttering flare of the smoky lamp, carefully unwrapped the canvas cover.
Cutting the thongs, he removed the cover and there, showing yellow and dull in the guttering flare of the blubber lamp, was gold!
It was what he said of his mother which caused the guttering in her heart and the weak sensation in her legs.
The figure by the hearth bowed, and her fright, like some evil bird, came gutteringdown on her again.
Before his eyes the faces of the two girls continually started up, framed by the sky, with young leaves guttering against their cheeks.
One candle was extinguished, but the other lay guttering and flaring some twenty feet above us, wasting rapidly, and casting its feeble, weird light upon where we clung.
But down here in this dark dug-out, twenty feet below the earth, the sombre surroundings only illuminated by a guttering candle in a bottle, I was far more affected.
Holding a piece of guttering candle in my hand, and shaking like a leaf with cold, I stepped between the sleeping men; but it was anything but an easy task.
Saul looked uneasily over his shoulder at the shadows which the guttering candle cast on the wall.
A soft, homemade candle, guttering on the table, shed a yellow smoky light upon the faces of the bearded men who stood around it.
It was some time on entering before we could make out the huge figure of Buddha; for two guttering oil wicks only just made darkness visible.
The guttering candle gleamed feebly in the corner and the grease ran down the bottle.
A guttering candle was dying in the neck of a beer-bottle beside them and the smell of beer pervaded the place.
The light went out, but Jim suddenly relit the candle, and the guttering blaze again flared weakly through the gloom.
As they trooped by twos and threes down the Avenue of Delight many of the lamps had flickered out, and others were guttering in the sockets, fit images of wit and merriment that had lost their sparkle, and fell dull on jaded ears.
And even as he spoke the guttering tallow candle, swaying in its socket, suddenly went out with a loud splutter and a sizzle that echoed through the desolate room like the mocking laugh of ghouls.
A guttering piece of tallow candle, fixed to an old tin pot, stood in the middle of the floor, and its feeble, flickering light only served to accentuate the darkness that lay beyond its range.
Williams and I found picket a great resource; and many a good game of whist have I had sitting in a crowded quartette in our ramshackle battery Cape-cart, with an inch of candle guttering among the cards.
A little group of men round a guttering candle-lamp looked up.
Thereafter a deep silence fell on the dug-out, the recipients of letters crowding with bent heads round the guttering candle, the disappointed ones watching them with envious eyes.
She brought theguttering candle and he opened his letter.
She had no light but that of a guttering candle, carefully shaded from her patients' eyes, but Scott could see her well-poised head and fine profile as she bent over her writing.
The candle was guttering smokily, and he reached a shaking thumb and finger to pluck the "dead man" from the wick.
He heard me through without a word; and at the end, when I looked to see him spring up and bid me draw and let him have his one poor chance for satisfaction, he still sat motionless, winking and staring at the guttering candle.
