Clarissa Sligh, for example, shows a construction centered around a window frame whose altarlike character is emphasized by the half-melted votive candles that appear as part of it.

There was something about him that suggested a half-melted candle.

He raises the lid, and the small bulb inside the trunk is as dim as a half-melted votive candle in a ruby-dark glass.

The two-inch figurine, from the collection of a dead woman, had been standing on the kitchen table, among the small colored glasses that held half-melted candles.

Defenders of the Stone slumped at their posts like half-melted candles, and the officers showed more interest in chilled wine than in making their rounds.

In their place stood a tentacled creature, taller than a drow elf and resembling a half-melted candle with elongated, drooping facial features.

Pulling one of the half-melted candles out of its holder, Scott dipped it, wick first, into the lamp, the fuse crackling before finally glowing brightly with the bouncing flame.

His left hand rested on the tabletop beside the half-melted candle.

Objects of unknown use, like strange half-melted candles, rotating glassworks, or webs of laser-light, shimmered in the bulkheads, extending arms or mists toward the center of the chamber.

These were the handmaidens of Lolth, beasts that more resembled half-melted candles with longer appendages than the Spider Queen herself.