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She looked wonderingly at the disordered room, and half-closed her eyes, dazzled by the candles burning on the table.
On the work-table, covered over with a white cloth, there were five or six small balls of cotton in a silver dish, near a large crucifix between two lighted candles.
Monsieur Bournisien was there, and two large candles were burning at the head of the bed, that had been taken out of the alcove.
Emma!"His strong breathing made the flames of the candles tremble against the wall.
The wax of the candles fell in great drops upon the sheets of the bed.
The bier stood near the lectern, between four rows of candles.
One saw upon the altar more than a thousand candles arranged in eight rows, separated from one another by clusters of flowers.
Julien noticed that there were on the altar candles more than fifteen feet long.
That evening, he sent down to the chapel of the Seminary ten pounds of candles, saved, he said, by Julien's efforts and the rapidity with which he extinguished them.
'I told him that I had something to say to him, and he does not condescend to return!'CHAPTER 9 The BallThe splendour of the dresses, the blaze of the candles, the perfumes; all those rounded arms, and fine shoulders; bouquets, the sound of Rossini's music, pictures by Ciceri!
The master of the house had long been asleep; M. de La Mole was obliged to ring to have fresh candles brought in.
While the candles were being changed: 'Heaven knows what that fellow is going to say to the King!' the man with the waistcoats murmured to his neighbour.
When the servants, who were half asleep, had finished changing the candles:'Let us now begin to deliberate, Gentlemen,' said the chairman, 'and no longer attempt to persuade one another.
She lighted a number of candles.
Coming thus near to the summit of one of the high mountains of the Jura, in the middle of the night, in that little cave magnificently illuminated with countless candles, a score of priests celebrated the Office of the Dead.
In the distance there was a large triangle of candles flickering on the main altar, K. was not certain whether he had seen them earlier.
And this was the moment when the man in the cassock chose to put out the candles on the main altar, one by one.
Enormous fires were snapping in the chimneys of the house, superseding the necessity of candles, by the bright light which was thrown from the blazing piles.
"I know'd that evil would soon happen," said Katy."The sun set to-night behind a black cloud, and the house dog whined, although I gave him his supper with my own hands; besides, it's not a week sin' I dreamed the dream about the thousand lighted candles, and the cakes burnt in the oven."
Bundles of candles were procured, and straightway there was a general scamper up the hill.
Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled webwork of names, dates, postoffice addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke).
Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles.
If they put our candles out it will be an awful fix.
They tried to estimate how long they had been in the cave, but all they knew was that it seemed days and weeks, and yet it was plain that this could not be, for their candles were not gone yet.
The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high.
It was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings; on each horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist; he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram; for as the cart was thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything that was on it.
He locked the door behind him, and by the light of two wax candles undressed himself, but as he was taking off his stockings—O disaster unworthy of such a personage!—there
He put out the candles; but the night was warm and he could not sleep; he rose from his bed and opened slightly a grated window that looked out on a beautiful garden, and as he did so he perceived and heard people walking and talking in the garden.
They extinguished the candles that were burning in the room, and rushed about seeking some way of escape; the cord with the large bells never ceased rising and falling; and most of the people of the castle, not knowing what was really the matter, were at their wits' end with astonishment.
It was a long room, with crimson-covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers.
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