Emily slipped her hand between the feather tick of her bed and the chaff mattress and produced a half-burned candle, secreted there for just such an emergency.

He pulled closer the half-burned candles and laid in front of him the legacy of Eusebios: the imperial signet and the package with the parchments.

There was a large mirror at one end of the poky room, and a couple of half-burned candles in front of him.

Moving in silently, Lotte touched the half-burned candle.

Light wavered into the room as Pork entered carrying high a half-burned candle stuck in a saucer.

The "amorphous column" form is described as a "one-eyed column resembling a roper or a half-burned brown candle, with eight pseudopods."

Now, more than 30 years after the club was shuttered and the tables abandoned with cloths and half-burned candles in place, Minton's is expected to reopen.

The next thing our light picked up was a branching candelabrum filled with half-burned candles, and this I lit all over.

Other things on the shelf: incense, a torn glove, a half-burned votive candle on a spike in a rusty bowl.

His eyes were getting used to the dim yellow murk that came through the caboose's filmy windows, and he discovered a half-burned candle stuck with wax to a saucer.