CANDLES in Classic Quotes

1  Among them, candles burned serenely like altar fires.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

2  "You say it for me and light some candles, too," he said, smiling at the frightened urgency in her voice.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  Dey tuck all de candles, Miss Scarlett, all 'cept one we been usin' ter fine things in de dahk wid, an' it's 'bout gone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

4  Now an oil lamp and a few candles lighted the room and the roaring fire in the wide hearth gave most of the illumination.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

5  By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

6  She pinned the wrapper close about her throat, lit her bedside candle and hurried down the dark stairs into the front hall.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

7  Yes, they were like candles, candles shielded from every wind, two soft lights glowing with happiness at being home again among her friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

8  The door opened quickly and Mammy, shrinking back into the shadows of the hall, saw Rhett huge and dark against the blazing background of candles.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIX

9  Scarlett entered her room, set the candle on the tall chest of drawers and fumbled in the dark closet for the dancing dress that needed stitching.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

10  A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

11  Opposite the winding stair stood a walnut sideboard, too large for use in the dining room, bearing on its wide top several lamps and a long row of candles in candlesticks.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

12  The week had passed swiftly, like a dream, a dream fragrant with the smell of pine boughs and Christmas trees, bright with little candles and home-made tinsel, a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

13  Pork lit one lamp and three candles and, with the pompous dignity of a first chamberlain of the royal bedchamber lighting a king and queen to their rooms, he led the procession up the stairs, holding the light high above his head.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  Then the hardwood floors had shone like glass, and overhead the chandelier with its hundreds of tiny prisms had caught and reflected every ray of the dozens of candles it bore, flinging them, like gleams from diamonds, flame and sapphire about the room.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

15  Scarlett stood in her apple-green "second-day" dress in the parlor of Twelve Oaks amid the blaze of hundreds of candles, jostled by the same throng as the night before, and saw the plain little face of Melanie Hamilton glow into beauty as she became Melanie Wilkes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

16  As a child, she often had crept to the door and, peeping through the tiniest crack, had seen Ellen emerge from the dark room, where Gerald's snores were rhythmic and untroubled, into the flickering light of an upheld candle, her medicine case under her arm, her hair smoothed neatly place, and no button on her basque unlooped.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Afterward she remembered, as from a dream, the hundreds of candles flaring on the walls, her mother's face, loving, a little bewildered, her lips moving in a silent prayer for her daughter's happiness, Gerald flushed with brandy and pride that his daughter was marrying both money, a fine name and an old one--and Ashley, standing at the bottom of the steps with Melanie's arm through his.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII