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 2005

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 2003

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 2002

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 2002

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 2002

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

The Adventure of Black Peter. 1990

It is the beginning of the end -- of the candle-end.

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

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

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

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.

Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort

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 Various