wax-light

Under this my Gregorian chant, and beautiful wax-light phantasmagory, kindly hidden from you is an abyss of black doubts, scepticism, nay, sans-culottic Jacobinism, an orcus that has no bottom.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

The most unusual and characteristic element in her appearance was a white, translucent complexion with touches of colour, and as she was also dressed in white, lightly embroidered with gold, she seemed to Lecour, in the radiant, unreal wax-light, so ethereal as to have just come from heaven.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

As soon as he appeared in court, a chain was put round his body, and a wax-light in his hand, when two friars read aloud the articles of accusation.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

Walker stepped to the mantel where the wax-light would fall full upon his face, and said:

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

Dimmler had no sooner begun his nocturne than Natacha, crossing the room on tiptoe, seized the wax-light that was burning on the table and carried it into the next room; then she stole back to her seat, it was now quite dark in the larger room, especially in their corner, but the silvery moonbeams came in at the wide windows and lay in broad sheets on the floor.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

Still holding the faint wax-light in his hand Louis turned to the door of

Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

Pantry the Usher takes fine and coarse bread, and a wax-light that burns all night in a basin.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

From the Pantry the Usher takes fine and coarse bread, and a wax-light that burns all night in a basin.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Joyce put down the wax-light she carried and looked round.

East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter 1864

As always, the wax-light in the silver basin was kept faintly burning.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864