What is "tapers"

Usage examples of "tapers".

They'll be wanting more tapers up at the keep this night, and what am I to sell them?

His breathing was heavy, and it took him longer than usual to kindle several tapers from the single one I had set out.

I told her, too, that he was in need of two beeswax tapers, a total fabrication on my part, but one that allowed me to remain by her side as we strolled up the winding street.

She brought a branch of tapers and a set of tablets to a table and set them out on it.

For her birth labors, I burned two tapers of bayberry and two cup candles scented with two handfuls of the small violets that grow near Dowell's Mill and one handful of redroot, chopped very fine.

King Richard strode down, waving and smiling to hysterical cheers and the Te Deum as tapers were lit, the whole thing staged by Ambroise.

We could now look downward on a hollow area dotted with bonfires, torches and tapers, each sur­rounded by a cinnamon glow cut by long shadows of skeletal Crusaders dancing deliriously to syncopated drums and fife.

The tiny, faceted chamber gleamed gold and stony silver-gray, thick yellow tapers burning in sconces on each of the eight arching walls.

The first thing I noticed was, that the quaint old church was lighted up with innumerable wax tapers,--an uncommon sight, for the darkness of a Catholic church in the evening is usually relieved only by a candle here and there, and by a blazing pyramid of them on the high altar.

The tapers were little spiral coils of wax, which the children unrolled as fast as they burned, and when they were tired of holding them, they rested them on the ground and watched the burning.

They had massed all the tapers in the center and formed a ring about the spectacle, sitting with their legs straight out before them and their toes turned up.