candle-flames

Steadily it grew, filling the room with gleams of quivering green light; then they sank quickly, and changed — even as the candle-flames had done — into a deep, sombre crimson, that strengthened, and lit up the room with a flood of awful glory.

The House on the Borderland 2007

By the by, I had a Marxist professor of classics who liked to talk about Wooly MamMoths and how they were always flying into lightbulbs and candle-flames...

Rocketing up the Food Chain! Susan Palwick 2007

He drew back the window-curtains, whereupon the red glow of the lamp and the two candle-flames became almost invisible with the flood of late autumn sunlight that poured in.

The Woodlanders 2006

Christopher turned his back upon the window, and there were the hitherto beaming candle-flames shining no more radiantly than tarnished javelin-heads, while the snow-white lengths of wax showed themselves clammy and cadaverous as the fingers of a corpse.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Her eyes flew round the room as the growing candle-flames showed other articles.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

Then although there wasn't a single breath of moving air in the room, the candle-flames began to dim, one by one, and go out!

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

Eyes like two little candle-flames in the middle of a completely featureless face.

The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Eyes like two little candle-flames in the middle of a completely featureless face.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Eyes like two little candle-flames in the middle of a completely featureless face.

Born To Run Lackey, Mercedes 1992

Sweat drenched his face and tunic and his legs felt as if candle-flames had been lit inside them when at last he staggered into the grove.

Last Sword Of Power Gemmell, David 1988