The glow in Carlotta's eyes and mouth was like that of a house at dusk, where you could tell that candles were glimmering inside even though windows and door were shut.

Like my patient the Wolf-Man, I was fortunate or unfortunate enough to be lying awake in the night when the five candles of my destiny glimmered on the tree outside.

The candles glimmered on the moon-blanched tree like Christmas candles.

The lights had been put out in the dining-hall; our candle glimmered solitary in the long gallery, and the columns had turned black from pediment to capital.

While his father introduces him to the family's private bordello, his mother throws grand parties on the patio, "candles glimmering softly, the cloying smell of dama de noche and kamuning hovering over the cool night air" (and maids squatting under the table to swat away mosquitoes).

Not even a single candle glimmered in invitation.

Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep, but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering, no one would see.

As he expected, no candle glimmered; the hearth was dead.

The corridor was unlighted, but a candle glimmered through an open doorway at the end.

It was dusk; candles glimmered already in the windows of the officers' quarters round the courtyard; but the twilight sky dazed him by its enormous and overwhelming brilliance.