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votive candles

n. (votive candle English)

Usage examples of "votive candles".

Also on the table were three small ruby-red glasses containing votive candles—.

These sounds, hard as ratcheting gears, turned her, turned her, as did the whirlwind stirred by the ghostly wings, a turbulence that tossed her hair and buffeted her face, until she rotated again to the sight of the votive candles and to the penitent on the pew.

A small ruby-red glass of the type that usually contains votive candles, though no candle was in this one.

The upended votive candles now looked more like tossed beer bottles than solemn offerings.

He was smiling at her from the small mirror just above the banks of votive candles childish, white-faced.

The collective power of the votive candles was like a solar flare as they stepped inside, and for a moment he was afraid God was striking them both down as hellspawn fool enough to enter His sacred dwelling place.

He looked around the room to clear his head and happened to light on the icons high in their corner, Christ on the left wall, the Madonna on the right, the two framed by richly embroidered cloths and lit by votive candles on a shelf.

To either side of the high altar, in what would have been the transepts of a larger church, racks of votive candles glowed sapphire and crimson before secondary altars to the Blessed Virgin and the church's patron.

To either side of the high altar, in what would have been the transepts of a larger church, racks of votive candles glowed sapphire and crimson before secondary altars to the Blessed Virgin and the churchs patron.

He put something on the stereo, lit a few votive candles and sat down next to me on the bed.

People hovered over small warming fires of rubbish, and around votive candles stuck in makeshift altars of wax.