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Examples
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To see them, all fire and flame and tenderness, at a trembling distance, lavishing caresses of eye and voice with every action, through every silence — their love driving them toward each other, and they withholding like fluttering moths, each to the other a candle-flame, and revolving each about the other in the mad gyrations of an amazing orbit-flight!
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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Jonathan's posted a short instructional video demonstrating a simple way to make a handsome plastic snail out of a cocktail stirrer by melting it over a candle-flame.
Boing Boing 2008
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Where fire was, there they lurked; candle-flame, or gaslight, coal-fire or stoked box of a steam-boiler, burning hearth or burning forest-aIl held his informants, any of which could impart their observations to him.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Really, LG 16 is a douse of water of the candle-flame of missionary activity which countless of our forebears died to bring to heathens.
CONFIRMED 2009
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The three hims escorted her to a warm second floor bedroom where the lighting was a cosy candle-flame orange.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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Certainly a child newly born in Boston, who gets a sensation from the candle-flame which lights the bedroom, or from his diaper-pin [who] does not feel either of these objects to be situated in longitude 71
William James Goodman, Russell 2006
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Each was swayed by the emotion within them, much as the candle-flame was swayed by the tempest without.
Two on a Tower 2006
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The first sensation of a resulting catastrophe was conveyed to their intelligence by the flapping of the candle-flame against the lantern-glass; then the wind, which hitherto they had heard rather than felt, rubbed past them like a fugitive.
Two on a Tower 2006
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Presently, just as the sun was setting, and shadows crossed the water, the sail (which had been gleaming like a candle-flame against the haze and upon the glaze) flickered and fell, and the bows swung round, and her figure was drawn upon the tideway.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Nanoannie liked her own wild curls, candle-flame blond, but this girl's style was, well, interesting.
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