candle-flame

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each was swayed by the emotion within them, much as the candle-flame was swayed by the tempest without.

Two on a Tower 2006

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

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

Nanoannie liked her own wild curls, candle-flame blond, but this girl's style was, well, interesting.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004