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Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles: when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.
In 1800, an American household spent 4% of its income on candles, lamps, oil, and matches.
In Tamil Nadu, angry growers have held similar protests, and lit candles in remembrance of those killed.
Sunlabob, a private company in Laos, is renting solar lanterns to poor villagers, who find them more affordable than candles.
These households resort to traditional fuels such as wood, oil, and candles for heating and lighting, leading to severe indoor pollution, not to mention chronic fire hazards.
As they marched toward Wenceslas Square, bearing candles, riot police cut them off, and many – men, women, children—were brutally beaten.
I have visited the homes of the bereaved, and lit incense sticks and candles at makeshift shrines.
The wood-paneled room was lit in the evening only by candles, masked behind reddish-yellow shades.
Inside the building the candles in both chandeliers were already lit, as well as all the candles in front of the icons.
I have been asked whether you will have new candles or used ones to hold?
'Well then, is it to be fresh candles or used ones?
The church became so quiet that the drops of wax were heard falling from the candles.
The priest lit two wax candles decorated with flowers, and holding them askew in his left hand so that the wax kept slowly dripping, turned to the young couple.
Then he gave them the candles, took the censer, and slowly stepped away from them.
He took the candles from their hands.
The candles were all burning low.
But the lamp-cabin was glittering--a glass house, full of hooks in rows, holding hundreds of Davy lamps, examined and washed the night before, and lighted like candles in chapel.
Jeanlin, who had made himself purveyor, with the prudence and discretion of a savage and delighted to make fun of the police, had even brought him pomatum, but could not succeed in putting his hands on a packet of candles.
She thought "her ways too fine for their position"; the wood, the sugar, and the candles disappeared as "at a grand establishment," and the amount of firing in the kitchen would have been enough for twenty-five courses.
The silver dish covers reflected the lighted wax candles in the candelabra, the cut crystal covered with light steam reflected from one to the other pale rays; bouquets were placed in a row the whole length of the table; and in the large-bordered plates each napkin, arranged after the fashion of a bishop's mitre, held between its two gaping folds a small oval shaped roll.
In the private rooms of restaurants, where one sups after midnight by the light of wax candles, laughed the motley crowd of men of letters and actresses.
She charmed him by numerous attentions; now it was some new way of arranging paper sconces for the candles, a flounce that she altered on her gown, or an extraordinary name for some very simple dish that the servant had spoilt, but that Charles swallowed with pleasure to the last mouthful.
She who was formerly so careful, so dainty, now passed whole days without dressing, wore grey cotton stockings, and burnt tallow candles.
By the last gleam of the twilight one could see that his face was rubicund and his form athletic."What can I do for you, Monsieur le Curie?" asked the landlady, as she reached down from the chimney one of the copper candlesticks placed with their candles in a row.
In fact, the villagers, who were hot, quarreled for these seats, whose straw smelt of incense, and they leant against the thick backs, stained with the wax of candles, with a certain veneration.
At dinner her husband thought she looked well, but she pretended not to hear him when he inquired about her ride, and she remained sitting there with her elbow at the side of her plate between the two lighted candles.
Then, as the candles dazzled him; he turned to the wall and fell asleep.
She lighted one of the kitchen candles that she had hidden behind the books.
The wicks of the candles flickered.
Monsieur Lheureux, in fact, went in for pawnbroking, and it was there that he had put Madame Bovary's gold chain, together with the earrings of poor old Tellier, who, at last forced to sell out, had bought a meagre store of grocery at Quincampoix, where he was dying of catarrh amongst his candles, that were less yellow than his face.
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