The rushlight was her friend, and aided her to pass the long, long hours before midnight, for it was enclosed within its accustomed tin cage; […]
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Rushlight
Synonyms for "rushlight" (7 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
2 translations across 2 languages.
Irish
1 entries- geataire noun (type of inexpensive candle)
Welsh
1 entries- cannwyll frwyn noun (type of inexpensive candle)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
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As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.
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The nights were almost at their longest now, and the cold was very great; but the watchers piled fresh logs upon the fire, and talked quietly to each other as they sat in the dancing glow--for the rushlight had long since gone out.
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