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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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Definition:1. (of wax) dripping/running down the sides of a candle2. (of a flame) to flicker when nearing the end of the fuel source, as a candle stub
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His candle guttered. In a few moments he would have lost his chance.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.234 (1990)
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Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells. The Invisible Man
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The candles on Colum’s table burned low in their holders, and the guttered wax glowed gold,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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A guttering candle was stuck in a crevice of the rocks which flanked it on each side so as to keep the wind from it and also to prevent it from being visible,
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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She went out on the stairs. On a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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