 ... fall. My candle rolled away from me and I snatched another as I rose. Abruptly this was blown out as I swung it off the table by the wind of my sudden movement, and immediately the two remaining candles followed. But there was light still in the room,...  Thirty Strange Stories - Page 136by Herbert George Wells - 1898 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Stuart Stone - 1896 - 716 pages
...dishevelled from candle to candle in a vain struggle against that remorseless advance. I bruised myself in the thigh against the table, I sent a chair headlong,...dancing between the glowing coals and splashing red reflection upon the furniture, made two steps toward the grate, and incontinently the flames dwindled... | |
 | 1896 - 930 pages
...candles followed. But there was light still in the room, a red light that streamed across the ceiling and staved off the shadows from me. The fire ! Of course...glow vanished, the reflections rushed together and disappeared, and as I thrust the candle between the bars darkness closed upon me like the shutting... | |
 | William Patten - Short stories - 1906 - 442 pages
...followed. But there was light still in the room, a red light, that streamed across the ceiling and staved off the shadows from me. The fire! Of course...red reflections upon the furniture ; made two steps toward the grate, and incontinently the flames dwindled and vanished, the glow vanished, the reflections... | |
 | William Patten - Detective and mystery stories - 1906 - 444 pages
...followed. But there was light still in the room, a red light, that streamed across the ceiling and staved off the shadows from me. The fire! Of course I could still thrust my candle be-ยป tween the bars and relight it! I turned to where the flames were still dancing between the glowing... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - English literature - 1925 - 680 pages
...light still in the room, a red light that staved off the shadows from me. The fire ! Of course I could thrust my candle between the bars and relight it ! I turned to where the flames were dancing between the glowing coals, and splashing red reflections upon the furniture, made two steps... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - English literature - 1925 - 748 pages
...light still in the room, a red light that staved off the shadows from me. The fire ! Of course I could thrust my candle between the bars and relight it ! I turned to where the flames were dancing between the glowing coals, and splashing red reflections upon the furniture, made two steps... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1927 - 260 pages
...light still in the room, a red light that staved off the shadows from me. The fire! Of course, I could thrust my candle between the bars and relight it! I turned to where the flames were dancing between the glowing coals, and splashing red reflections upon the furniture, made two steps... | |
 | Bill Bowers - Fiction - 2003 - 400 pages
...followed. But there was light still in the room, a red light, that streamed across the ceiling and staved off the shadows from me. The fire! Of course...red reflections upon the furniture; made two steps toward the grate, and incontinently the flames dwindled and vanished, the glow vanished, the reflections... | |
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