The cell was lighted by a single lamp, whose wick was smoking; in his eager desire to discern the venerable features of the Sheikh, the Prince dressed the wick with his own fingers.
Stow that talk and obey orders," said Riggs sharply, digging grease out of the can of the lamp with his fingers and picking the wick to make it burn better.
Mr. Wick stood over the table tapping his teeth softly with his pencil, and moving his lips in a way that produced a hollow tune.
Wick literally bounced to his feet, as if the name had been a bomb dropped into the room.
Wick was amazed and filled with pity at the thought of what life had been to this woman to reduce her powers to the deadly level of the tales that she poured out regularly every autumn.
Greatly to the girl's astonishment, Mr. Wick turned up two or three days after her decided rejection of him, and his manner had shown nothing of the traditional depression of the refused young man.
The next evening, Wick dined with the Gaskell-Walkers in Campden Hill.
My mother had a note from her," Wick remarked, "two or three days ago, it was.
Mr. Wick nodded, but did not answer, for he was busy making a series of those mental photographs, whose keenness and durability so largely contributed to his success in life.
Mr. Wickhas been to Weston-super-Mare to see Miss Perkins, who is there with some friends, after nursing her grandmother.
Later in the evening Jenny Wick accompanied Paul, as he sang some old ballads full of a kind of academic gruesomeness.
The wick has been forced into the oil, gentlemen; it has not gone out of itself; it has been the handiwork of one of you, but it will be seen to in the morning.
It is all very unlikely," answered our Argus; and he went to the lantern, the wick of which he found crushed down.
Basà ang pabílu kay síging nagsulù, The wick must be wet because it keeps sizzling.
Misáka ang lúbu human kadagkuti ang pabílu, The hot-air balloon rose after the wickwas lit.
Then the lamp was brought forth: the wick was turned up full, and the village strong man applied a light.
The tallow and wickwill have fallen out," I thought.
The firing went on, and just then the wick of the lamp, of which a good deal must have been loosened by the fall, began to blaze up famously.
Flosi took ship for Norway with Stein, the ship-master, and sold his lands in the Wick to Geirmund Hiuka-timber, who dwelt there afterwards.
Thorstein sent forthwith a messenger toWick to Flosi, and so to the nighest farm-steads.
By and by they will trim the wick and light it with fire of their own, but first they will quench the spark.
Then the sharp, commanding voice beat down the respectful objection, one of the flaming brands seemed to rise from the hearth, and directly after the smoky wick of the padre's lamp flamed up.
Adjusting the wick to the highest point it would stand without smoking, the two looked around.
The wick of the lamp was turned down and blown out by Alvin, after glancing around and noting that his companions were ready.
He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the tallow bespattered the wall.
He examined the flame of the candle with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning wax, which he rolled between his fingers.
The man now lays him down upon his bed, The wick yields up its fire, and so is dead.
The tallow makes the wick yield to the fire, And sinful flesh doth make the soul desire That grace may kindle on it, in it burn; So evil makes the soul from evil turn.
But 'tis the wick the fire doth kindle on, As 'tis the heart that grace first works upon.
Why is the wick and tallow, and all, spent to maintain the light of the candle?
Draw the wick of each up tightly and run a long hat pin through all three, resting the pin in the notches at the top and bringing each wick in the middle of its mould (Fig.
Cut off the knot and draw the wick up to within half an inch of the end, then separate the strands, spread them out flat and glue them to the bottom (Fig.
Cut from thewick several pieces nine inches long, select three strands for each candle, tie them together in bunches of threes, and braid, as shown in Fig.
Cut the bottom end of the wick close to the candle, and also trim off the top of the wick, making it about one inch long above the candle (Fig.
Glue the last disk you made, over the wick on the bottom of the mould, arranging the laps in order as you did those of the first.
I, Hans Keppel, have written this, amidst all my distress and suffering, and have my ink from the black of the burnt wick of the light that is burning above.
For a second only the light of the solitary candle shone upon the pale, scowling features of Mary Matchwell, and she quenched its wick against the wall.
Ay, a smouldering wick and a candle if you please; but enclosed in a glass bottle, how the deuce are you to blow it?
Soak a cotton wick in a strong solution of salt and water, dry it, place it in a spirit lamp, and, when lighted, it will give a bright yellow light for a long time.
He pinched out the flaming wick in the dish of fat standing on a wooden bracket nearby, to prevent someone in the grounds below seeing him at the window.
When his friend had handed him a bowl of fat, he lighted its wick with a glowing coal from an earthen jar and came back to Fordak.
For an instant I saw her standing in that position--then the wick of the spent candle fell over into the socket.
The candle had burned down nearly to the last morsel of tallow, but the unsnuffed wick had just fallen off, and the light was, for the moment, fair and full.
When this wickis lighted it gradually draws every drop of oil out of the well-supplied little reservoir, and thus a lamp is formed, very cheaply and easily, that lasts and gives a good light for the whole of a long winter's evening.
The young bird is caught, killed, and a wick is passed through his body until it projects from the bill.
I think we must not make for Burra Wick after all," he said.
And whosoever should know the ingredients of that wick or candle, and the manner of the composition, will easily be persuaded of the virulency and venomous effect of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
