| 单词 | rush candle |
| 例句 | After a satisfactory answer, the door was slowly and cautiously opened, and the figure of a wrinkled, half-famished, and half-naked beldam appeared, shading a rush candle with one hand. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z She lighted a fragment of a rush candle by the flame, and, opening a small box containing medicinal preparations, took therefrom a small vial containing an amber-coloured liquid, and held it to the light. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z She opened the door slowly, and the rush candle showed her clothing scattered about the room. A Singer from the Sea The radiance of sunlight might well have been less than the blaze of a rush candle before the staggering brilliancy. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Light is, or used to be, given by a “lamp,” a kind of Chinese lantern on a lacquer stand, the light being given by a rush candle. The Empire of the East It was now evening, and a faint light, shed from a rush candle, gleamed through the broken apertures of the low casement. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers Upon a little three-legged stool, between them, burns a dim rush candle, whose light is so exceedingly feeble that it casts ghastly and death-like shadows over the whole inside of the cabin. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One At this window, but a few paces away, she found her daughter awaiting her, and by the light of the rush candle that she carried she saw that the girl's face was deadly white. The Sign of the Red Cross The old woman Gianna had come downstairs with a lighted rush candle in her hand; she was scared and afraid. The Waters of Edera He lighted a rush candle and looked about him. The Thirsty Sword As he pored over the map, by the light of bog-deal torch or rush candle, what would he see upon it? Hereward, the Last of the English Before the first streak of dawn on that tardy, northern morning, Ridley’s ponderous step came up the stair, into the feeble light of the rush candle which the watchers tried to shelter from the draughts. Grisly Grisell It was, however, impossible to see anything without a light; it would be necessary to fetch one of the rush candles from the table in the corridor. Archibald Malmaison The two men did not recognize each other, for they had only met for a moment, and that by the faint light of a rush candle. La Vendée By the light of a rush candle Brother Basil and the Abbot looked at the precious grains of river-washed gold, twinkling like fairy stars. Masters of the Guild It was by one of his rush candles that Mary read it; and the letter was as follows:— The Parent's Assistant |
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