dip-candle

This contrivance is far simpler than a dip-candle, the arachis is broken off as it chars, and, when the lamp dims, turning it upside down causes a fresh flow of oil.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

By the dim glimmer of the dip-candle, a scene is presented which furnishes a tolerable picture of "chaos and old night," but defies all description.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

It had seven branches, and in each was a dip-candle.

The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists 1910

The little man held a feeble dip-candle in his hand, which lit his sallow face in crude black and white.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

And then he quenched the dip-candle over her, that was lighting the house, and he made for the man that mocked him, and gave him a blow that sent him into the hearth, and then he made away.

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892

He leaned over the greasy baluster, shouting into the invisible regions below, and was answered promptly enough by a grimy maid-servant with a flickering dip-candle.

The Baronet's Bride May Agnes Fleming 1860

Sylvia took her sewing and sat at the little round table by her mother, sharing the light of the scanty dip-candle.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

But all things must come to an end; and at length Kester got up from his three-legged stool, on seeing what the others did not -- that the dip-candle in the lantern was coming to an end -- and that in two or three minutes more the shippen would be in darkness, and so his pails of milk be endangered.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

But all things must come to an end; and at length Kester got up from his three-legged stool, on seeing what the others did not -- that the dip-candle in the lantern was coming to an end -- and that in two or three minutes more the shippen would be in darkness, and so his pails of milk be endangered.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Sylvia took her sewing and sat at the little round table by her mother, sharing the light of the scanty dip-candle.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837