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Examples

  • The wheels on his computer chair smeared melted candlewax all over his floor when he scooted over to his computer desk.

    The Grand Wizard Logs In Cupcake Kid 2011

  • Cringes as Whedonites hurl candlewax from their tiny little Whedon shrines at me.

    I Might Get Burned Again...News about Whedon's Dollhouse rabid1st 2008

  • The tree seemed to dribble out of its branches like candlewax, and solidify into the spreading trunk and gorged roots.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • She explains the origin of influential ancient scripts, such as Uncial and Insular Majuscule, magical terms that evoke the scent of candlewax and of sulfurous disputes over the proper date of Easter.

    Handwriting Is on the Wall 2009

  • The tree seemed to dribble out of its branches like candlewax, and solidify into the spreading trunk and gorged roots.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • They are covered in candlewax from the candle's the miner was using to light the tunnel he was working in.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • The room where they lay would “smell of camphor, candlewax and soap, and be as full of coughs and hard-back chairs as a doctor's waiting room.”

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The room where they lay would “smell of camphor, candlewax and soap, and be as full of coughs and hard-back chairs as a doctor's waiting room.”

    Posting the Dead 2006

  • I would write long letters to old friends and seal them with my own candlewax.

    Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool? 2008

  • They are covered in candlewax from the candle's the miner was using to light the tunnel he was working in.

    A Jeanealogical Post 2008

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