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Candle in sentence

368 examples of Candle in a sentence

"Blow out the candle: I don't need to see the colour of my thoughts."
He blew out the candle.
All four, standing up in the smoky light of the candle, swallowed their meals hastily.
And they went out, the men first, the girl, who came last, blowing out the candle and turning the key.
On Saturday evenings, after having blown out the candle, she had asked herself what would happen if he were to take her in this way; then, on going to sleep, she had dreamed that she would no longer refuse, quite overcome by pleasure.
Then, when the candle was out, they both knew that they were not sleeping but were thinking of each other in spite of their weariness.
He had seen Catherine glide beneath the coverlet and then blow out the candle.
No need to light the candle to see the empty plates.
And they had not said a word, and the candle had burnt so low that even light would soon fail them.
But the fire was dead, as with the Levaques, and the candle suddenly went out.
But the sudden gleam of a match astonished him, and he was stupefied on recognizing Jeanlin, who was lighting a candle and burying himself in the earth.
If he had only had a candle like the child!
At last he reached a landing-place, and he saw the candle going off along a gallery.
He was obliged to stop, he saw the child afar, placing his candle between two stones, and putting himself at ease with the quiet and relieved air of a man who is glad to be at home again.
A week passed by; the Maheus, who had been warned, were not able to send a candle; he had to give up the enjoyment of light, even when eating.
When the darkness began to stupefy him, weighing on his skull almost to madness, he would light up for a moment; then, as soon as he had chased away the nightmare, he extinguished the candle, miserly of this brightness which was as necessary to his life as bread.
They no longer even took the trouble to search, they knew that there was nothing left, that they had come to the end of everything, that they must not hope even for a candle, or a fragment of coal, or a potato, and they were waiting to die, only grieved about the children, and revolted by the useless cruelty that gave the little one a disease before starving it.
When they arrived at the pit-eye, however, out of breath, he sent the youngster for the candle.
It was idiotic, the whole mine seemed to be filled with voices; he had to light the candle again, and only grew calm on seeing the emptiness of the galleries by this pale light.
It was thought that it would be crushed to fragments and fly to powder, when suddenly it sank in one block, drunk down by the earth, melted like a colossal candle; and nothing was left, not even the point of the lightning conductor.
They went up to his room and settled down; the flies and moths fluttered round the candle.
All these great artists burn the candle at both ends; they require a dissolute life, that suits the imagination to some extent.
She was about to enter, but at the sound of the bell someone might come, and slipping in by the gate, holding her breath, feeling her way along the walls, she went as far as the door of the kitchen, where a candle stuck on the stove was burning.
Finishing his exhortations, he tried to place in her hand a blessed candle, symbol of the celestial glory with which she was soon to be surrounded.
The women followed in black cloaks with turned-down hoods; each of them carried in her hands a large lighted candle, and Charles felt himself growing weaker at this continual repetition of prayers and torches, beneath this oppressive odour of wax and of cassocks.
A candle burnt in one of the gilt candlesticks.
I carry, on solemn occasions, a big candle bought at my own cost.
In another moment she had torn herself from his arms, lighted the candle, and Julien had all the difficulty in the world in preventing her from cutting off all one side of her hair.
I was calm then,' cried Julien, in desperation, 'I thought that I pitied her ...''The moth singes its wings in the flame of the candle,' the Prince continued, 'a metaphor as old as the world.
At night, when he came upstairs with his candle, each piece of furniture, every little ornament seemed to acquire the power of speech to inform him harshly of some fresh detail of his misery.
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