candle-end

• “He got out his lantern, and after a prodigious waste of matches kindled the candle-end inside, turned the dark shutter, and trotted happily on.”

  Prester John

• “In one hand he carried the letter, in the other the candle-end stuck in a bottle that was known as a “Ballarat-lantern” for it was a pitchdark night.”

  Australia Felix

• “The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.”

  Crime and Punishment

• “A very poor-looking room about ten paces long was lighted up by a candle-end; the whole of it was visible from the entrance.”

  Crime and Punishment

• “And that consumptive and excited face with the last flickering light of the candle-end playing upon it made a sickening impression.”

  Crime and Punishment

• “Then he laid the candle-end upon the table and disappeared from our view into one of the corners.”

  The Adventure of Black Peter.

• “And in another minute I am with him -- I am out -- _and so is the candle-end_.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891

• “It is the beginning of the end -- of the candle-end.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891

• “The candle-end is making a final struggle for life.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891

• “Pare some large apples that are rather of a yellow tint; cut several pieces out of them, in the shape of a candle-end, round, of course, at the bottom, and square at the top; in fact, as much as possible like a candle that has burnt down within an inch or so.”

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