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Andrew Unangst/Getty Images At every turn, Faraday surprises us with the hidden facets of the candle's burning, such as how its seemingly immaterial flame derives its brilliance from the combustion of solid, dirty soot.

Keeper of the Flame Peter Pesic 2012

It might just have been the light's reflection, or the shiver of a candle's flame, but for that moment, that one brief moment, Abby swore she could see him smile.

The Temperature of Porridge Sally Houtman 2012

Indeed, Laura's mother, Caroline, whether about to be scalped by the natives -- or on the verge of being burned alive (while, bucket by bucket, she tries to put out the flames that threaten to destroy her family's cabin), yes "Sainte Caroline" always manages a smile before putting out the candle's light each night.

sourire - French Word-A-Day 2008

Do we whuff out like a candle's flame in the sudden wind from a slammed door, and that's it?

Common Ground - Part II - What to Write About Steve Perry 2010

Then two eyeballs dully gleaming by a candle's flickering beaming peered with alcoholic blankness from a barely opened door.

Nutrition 2010

Indeed, Laura's mother, Caroline, whether about to be scalped by the natives -- or on the verge of being burned alive (while, bucket by bucket, she tries to put out the flames that threaten to destroy her family's cabin), yes "Sainte Caroline" always manages a smile before putting out the candle's light each night.

French Word-A-Day: 2008

We fed on each other's secret poetry, drinking the communal smell of our voices in the candle's scarlet; unaligned, our bodies soon formed their own brethren ministry.

Soviet Adam Henry Carri 2010

Indeed, Laura's mother, Caroline, whether about to be scalped by the natives -- or on the verge of being burned alive (while, bucket by bucket, she tries to put out the flames that threaten to destroy her family's cabin), yes "Sainte Caroline" always manages a smile before putting out the candle's light each night.

French Word-A-Day: 2008

The occasional snowball would thud harmlessly against a window and slide down the glass, and inside, Orville would sit to a candle's glow, that old freezer humming its sixty cycle hum, and before him in the case, Ezekiel — rising to heaven as though to show him the way.

Ezekiel Rising 2009

I keep thinking about that condolence card I've seen, the one about how when the candle's blown out, it doesn't mean that darkness has won: it means that the sun is rising.

Departures Susan Palwick 2009