Sentences with phrase «guttering candles»

As the man adjusted his eyes to the gloom, he saw, by the light of half - a-dozen guttering candles, stretched out on the floor before him, the naked body of a boy of sixteen, his throat cut from ear to ear.

They turned into an even narrower alley, then into a footpath, and then, finally, after making a staccato rap on an almost invisible door, stooped under a lintel and stepped into a room lit by guttering candles and flickering firelight.

Unless creation is senseless and purposeless it can not snuff out like a guttering candle the fairest thing it has created.

(There are too many adherents to fit around a guttering candle in a dark cellar.)

Not exact matches

The candle flame gutters.

Then, as the candle guttered, he stared helplessly.

Oh, we talked on long after the last dish had been removed, and the candles had burned down to guttering stubs, and still the wind could be heard out on the marsh, and the boughs of the trees slapped against the high windows of the house.