What is "candleflame"

Usage examples of "candleflame".

Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.

Polished to a gleaming white, the bones glittered like candleflames in the relative brilliance of the rakhene cookfires.

The wax figure had begun to glow on the incense embers, more golden than the myriad candleflames glittering in the hall.

I loved the darkness of the club, the little orange candleflames in glass cups on all the tables, the iron door that hourly would slide up to reveal El Rayo, the lion heartbeat rhythm of the background music, the curving black and chrome bar.

Woodseer was at the wonted corner of his back room, on the stool between two tallow candleflames, leather scented strongly, when the wanderer stood before him, in the image of a ball that has done with circling about a stable point.

It was like trying to focus on the flicker of a candleflame, when that candle was in front of the sun.

Emuin from his tower, which meant waking him from the diurnal sleep natural in a man who spent his nights peering at the stars, omen-taking, and scrying gods-knew-what in candleflame and water.

All The Pretty Horses By Cormac McCarthy I THE CANDLEFLAME and the image of the CANDLEFLAME caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.

Her hat was a velvet affair, so awkward and heavy it seemed to weigh down her head, and her candleflame hair was smothered under it.

During waking hours he would often stare for hours at nothing, or at a candleflame, and his conversation had become monosyllabic.

He sighed, his breath making the candleflame flutter, and pushed his own food around on his plate with his fork.

The question was calm, and the eyes lit by a candleflame were only mildly curious.

He inhaled incense, sipped water, passed his hand through the candleflame, and took grains of salt from a golden spoon onto his tongue.

Sionell stared into the candleflame until her eyes stung, as if she could conjure the faces of her children.

But Crigo cried out in sudden agony and the candleflame surged upward, becoming a pillar of writhing Fire that grew talons and teeth and dragon wings.