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1  The porter halted on the stairs to settle his guttering candle.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
2  He lit a candle in the office and went before them to the stairs.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
3  She wanted to relight her candle at his for hers had been blown out by a gust.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
4  From her hands and wrists too as she lit and steadied her candle a faint perfume arose.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
5  The porter took up his candle again, but slowly, for he was surprised by such a novel idea.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
6  Then he set his unstable candle down on a toilet-table and asked at what hour they were to be called in the morning.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
7  They used to go upstairs together on tiptoe, each with a candle, and on the third landing exchange reluctant good-nights.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
8  The room through the lace end of the blind was suffused with dusky golden light amid which the candles looked like pale thin flames.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  "I bar the candles," said Mr. Kernan, conscious of having created an effect on his audience and continuing to shake his head to and fro.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
10  If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS