The mounds, not of earth, but of rocks, seem naturally to taper into the crowning flagstaff.
He saw her retreating, the taper lighting up her marble face, her scarlet lip quivering, and her shining golden hair.
So she came holding her dress with one fair rounded arm, and her taper before her, tripping down the stair to greet Esmond.
As the day dawned, a fine, tall ship, with taper spars, and white canvas, was only a few miles ahead of us.
Now sit we close about this taper here, And call in question our necessities.
In a damp recess, behind the columns, a taper was burning, before which knelt a woman, making a vow; the dim flame seemed lost in the vagueness of the arches.
She carried a blessed taperin her hand, to offer up a prayer.
They beg for money to buy a taper for the Virgin's altar; for it must not be forgotten that the month of May is the month of Mary.
Elsewhere in Champagne young girls collect the taper money; they cunningly appeal to the tenderness of the young mother by bringing to her mind the hour "when she takes her pretty child up in the morning and lays him to sleep at night.
In one case, two Norns assign to a newborn child long life and happiness, but the third and youngest decrees that he shall only live while a lighted taper burns.
Meanwhile the troop surrounded him, and he who was at its head offered him the taper he was carrying.
As he was going away from the churchyard he saw a procession of white friars--they went round the close, each with a taper in his hand.
The woman took out hertaper box, dropped some fresh wax beneath the seal, and smiling all the time, handed the note back again.
The horns are curious, being triangular, with the sharp edge to the front; they are very thick at the base, and taper rapidly to a fine point, curving right back on to the neck.
They are perfectly round, and taper gradually to the tips, which are smooth; the bony cores are also spiral, so that in the dry skull the horn screws on and off.
To my misfortune I yielded to it, showing her to him one night by the light of a taper at a window where we used to talk to one another.
The spikes are made with a slightly taper neck, of size rather less than the hole in the chair, to avoid risk of breaking the casting when driving the spike down.
Some caissons are made with vertical sides throughout their entire height; others have an outward taper for 15 or 20 feet on the lower end.
Each of the above-described piers has a liberal amount of taper or batter, both in the front and transverse elevation.
And as you see the dying taper waste, 10 By such degrees does he to darkness haste.
The faults of state I cannot virtues name, And bear myself upon the wings of pride, Nor light my taper at another's flame, Or use the art at beauty's eventide.
To sell thyself dost thou intend 10 By candle end, And hold the contract thus in doubt, Life's taper out?
And yet this lantern keeps Love's taper Surer than yours, that's of white paper.
The eggs are from three to five, of a pale greenish blue, shape ordinary, but somewhat inclined to taper to the smaller end.
The eggs are long, and pointed at the small end, to which they sometimes taper much.
In shape they tapersomewhat suddenly to the smaller end, which may almost be termed obtusely pointed.
These pipes are of glazed earthenware, taper at one end, and each fitting into the large end of the next.
He was put into a palm-leaf basket, which held him all but the tip of his long taper tail, which, like the rest of his body, was covered with rings of armour fitting beautifully into one another.
In 1182 Philippe Auguste decreed that a taper should always be kept alight before the tomb of his father.
So, too, the holding up of the re-kindled taper in the face of the fiend, and his consequent flight, symbolises the Light of the World chasing away evil.
Geneviève holding her demon-extinguished taper which an Angel relights; S.
When they got to a certain part of it, he gave a great knock to the taper that the maid had in her hand, and left her in the dark.
And he signed her to take a taper in her hand, and come with him to her mistress' bed.
Ramiro drank again, then sat with the letter before him in the light of the single taper I had left burning.
The noises in the castle had all ceased, and still I sat on, unconscious of time, my taper burning low.
On the threshold a dark figure straightened itself from a stooping posture, and the light of the taper behind me fell on a face of a pallor that seemed to glisten in its intensity.
Left alone, I surveyed my surroundings by the light of the taperhe had left in the iron sconce on the wall.
I turned and slowly I paced back until I stood beside the great black catafalque, at each corner of which a tall wax taperwas burning.
But the night being gloomy, her taper having gone out, she must have been standing in a dense darkness.
She had lifted the lantern now, and I was striving to touch the wax taper to the wick, with imminent danger to my bare fingers.
He moved through the dark room with perfect ease, struck a match, lighted a taper and went swiftly and softly about.
He touched the taper to one candle after another,—they seemed to be everywhere,—and won from the dark a faint twilight, that yielded slowly to a growing mellow splendor of light.
I have no heart to “go into” these mere ingenious and more or less effective pleasantries to any tune beyond this of glancing at the other, the extinct, actualities they hold up the glimmering taper to.
They scarcely taste flesh; they rise at two in the morning to sing Matins and Lauds, night and day, summer and winter, they take turns before the taper of reparation, and before the altar.
A lighted taper stood in the middle of the hall, and before it a nun prayed day and night, a cord round her neck, to expiate the insults offered to Jesus under His Eucharistic form.
