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Usage examples of candles.

Alfred devised candles of seventy-two pennyweights of wax that would burn for four hours, thus six candles per day in succession to mark the time.

She had been imagining Christmas Eve in 1320, when the Scripture was in Latin and candles flickered in the windows.

The candles in front of the statue of Saint Catherine had been extinguished.

Fire would have been a huge problem, even in a stone church, and there were no votive glasses for the candles to burn down safely in.

When Lady Imeyne told Kivrin to take six beeswax candles to Father Roche, she was delighted with the chance to get the girls out of the house.

She took the half- burned candles out of the heavy branched candlestick.

Catherine, huddled among the candles at its base in her red cape and hood.

Kivrin still needed to fetch the blankets and the candles, but she wanted to put the sacraments in the panniers first.

The chapel, a glittering little palace decorated with a lot of crystals and candles, was tucked away on a side street just off the Strip.

The last few years have been especially profitable as my reputation for fine mead and honey and bees-wax candles has grown.

The few candles and smoking torches in wall brackets barely lit the large room, and no fire was laid in the hearth on this warm May night.

He sat on a stool watching her put candles into wooden containers to be carried to her agent in Jorvik.

And the sheep and weaving operations could be profitable in time, but, for an immediate influx of coins, my honey and candles and mead are needed.

There is a huge demand for my wares, especially the unique timekeeping candles I fashion.

He would fill the chamber with dozens of her precious beeswax candles and be damned with her false modesty.