taper's

Throughout their four-decade career, the Grateful Dead actively encouraged fans to trade live recordings and even designated a special "taper's section" at the concerts.

Archive 2005-12-01 Annie 2005

Throughout their four-decade career, the Grateful Dead actively encouraged fans to trade live recordings and even designated a special "taper's section" at the concerts.

the plot thickens, via rolling stone... Annie 2005

A blue spark jumped between her cupped hands, igniting the taper's wick.

Lord of the Isles 1997

The taper's light gleamed upon his skin, casting yellow highlights over heavy arms and a wide, hairless chest that descended into a broad, firm paunch.

Conan and the Emerald Lotus Hocking, John 1995

She replied in the same courteous air, inquired concerning her acquaintance, and ordered lights, -- took the letter he brought, and held it, still sealed, in the taper's flame till it fell in ashes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

It was the draught that stirred the air about the church and blew great shrouds of wax adown the taper's yellow sides.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

The boards creaked beneath their tread, as if resenting the unaccustomed intrusion; nimble spiders, paralysed by the taper's glare, checked the motion of their hundred legs upon the wall, or dropped like lifeless things upon the ground; the death-watch ticked; and the scampering feet of rats and mice rattled behind the wainscot.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

I do not believe this theory myself -- for the jejune love of youth is as a taper's flame to the great and passionate tenderness of maturity, when the soul, and not the body, claims its due; when love is not dragged down to the vulgar level of mere cohabitation, after the fashion of the animals in a farmyard, but rises to the best height of human sympathy and intelligent comprehension.

Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

I will not follow the reader with that kind guide who will cheer his wanderings through those sunless corridors of death, where many of the sleepers still lie sealed within their tombs on either hand, and show him by the smoky taper's light the frescos which adorn the cramped chapels.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

[Page 265] sacred banks of the Cam, and being Christmas-day, had the advantage of hearing the fine service in King's College Chapel by 'taper's light.'

Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874