He put the candle on the silver candlestick.
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday".
This simple candle holder made of a cobbler's shoe stand and mold is heavy and strong enough to withstand the wind, and it adds an eclectic, romantic feel to a basic candle in a mason jar.
Someone who lived in a big house would have a servant light his way by holding a candle.
In principle, one can trace that history back in cosmic time by observing a so-called standard candle, a class of astronomical object whose intrinsic luminosity is uniform.
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
The candle has gone out.
The candle flickered in the wind.
As one communes with the fire of the candle, you commune with Earth.
Master craftsman Segolene Royal tops out his candle-powered carousel windmill in a bottle at his workshop in Germany.
The light perceived by the human eye is measured in units called lumen-hours. This is about the amount produced by burning a candle for an hour.
Above the couple's heads, the candle that has been left burning in broad daylight on one of the branches of an ornate copper chandelier can be interpreted as the nuptial flame, or as the eye of God.
Why did you hold the candle horizontally?
A puff of wind blew out the candle.
A sudden gust of wind from the open window puffed the candle out.
Hanging together for the first time are three versions of the image of a boy blowing on an ember to light a candle.
The simplest version, which it hopes to sell for less than $15, is designed to allow children to do their homework in the evenings without a candle or smoky kerosene lamp.
The bottom of the candle is fused with its holder.
"Well, then, Becky, we must stay here, where there's water to drink. That little piece is our last candle!"
Returning to the candle he sets his brew alight and offers it to a nameless God in a gesture of supplication.
The candle stood on an iron candlestick.
He cursed to himself, and in a few minutes came out with a lighted candle, and proceeded to their room.
This Duncker candle problem, as it is known, is considered a good test of creativity because it requires you to imagine something being used for a purpose quite different from its usual one.
The candle guttered out when the melted wax ran down its sides.
And dress by yellow candle light.
By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his dead eye.
So for decades, astronomers have used it as a "standard candle" in the field of high-energy astrophysics.
She lit a candle, and went to a second and a third bed under the wall, where she awoke her young sisters and brothers, all of whom occupied the same room.
Another type of standard candle is a type of star called a Cepheid variable.
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