rushlight

1 By the rushlight she could see the ravages of illness on his wasting features; features that seemed to have changed for the worse even since she had seen him that time last night.

2 The rushlight, which stood beside the bed, was now burnt low; the long shadow of the tall wicker chair flitted, faded, appeared, and vanished, as the flame rose and sank in the socket.

3 She had mistaken that wretched farthing rushlight for day.

4 Poetry was only the flame of life made visible, and if he were to sacrifice Pauline what gasping and ignoble rushlight of his own would he offer to the world?

5 Down here there was no wind, no snow, no ice, no dead things reaching out to grab you, only dreams and rushlight and the kisses of the ravens.

6 He once got out of bed having waked with the fear he had forgotten it, and rehearsed to his own whistling by the light of a rushlight.

7 Before the days of mineral oils, the general means of illumination, both in mansion and cottage, was the rushlight.

8 An oyster prison’d in his shell; A rushlight in the vaults of death; A rattlesnake without his tail. chorus.

9 It shone under the door by which he had entered, and proceeded, beyond doubt, from a lanthorn or rushlight in the antechamber.

10 When the fat Laroche calls me to my duty, I confess with my tongue in my cheek and burn a rushlight.

11 "The baby is very unwell, Jonas," she said, and extending her hand, lit a tallow candle at the meagre flame of the rushlight.

12 Nothing was changed in the room since last night, except only that the rushlight had dwindled to a pool of cold fat; but how long it had been out I could not gauge.

13 Of rushlights there were two kinds, one, the simplest, consisted of a dry rush dipped in a little grease.

14 And Maria lay dressed upon her bed, sleepless, listening and watching, and seeing always in the dim rushlight that white shimmering gown splashed with rain, and hanging limply by one sleeve.

15 But first she blew out the candles and the rushlight, already dying spasmodically.

16 Here and there a tiny rushlight shone out, high up, and marked a hill-farm.

17 “Mrs. Camels,” by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, “she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.”

18 A fig for England! she was a turnip-spectre illumined by a rushlight.

19 It would be but a poor gain to most of us to exchange the great lamps of famous doctors for the uncertain rushlights of our own imaginations.

20 The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen.

1 微光

taper twilight shimmer glimmer gleam glint

2 微不足道的人

shrimp insignificancy

3 灯心草蜡烛

rush candle rushcandle

4 微不足道的东西

non-thing mag peppercorn twopence halfpenny insignificancy