Don't burn candles for more than four hours at a time.

As these candles burned for about four hours, each mark represented 20 minutes.

He burns the candle at both ends trying to find a way to win.

A single candle burned in the window, though, lighting them home.

"I just don't want to burn the candle at both ends."

"You have to burn the candle at both ends," he says.

I have worked like hell, often burning the candle at both ends, trying to build the business and stay ahead of the competition.

Sort of burning the candle at both ends and in the middle too.

"This country doesn't want somebody who burns candles to the god Mars," he continued.

Lucy had been burning candles in a closet, her sister told the police.