How To Use Candlewick In A Sentence
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I dipped my pinkie into the pool of hot wax around the candlewick and placed a tiny drop on the corner of the card, refastening it to the page.
Excerpt: The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas
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I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
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The evening will feature a large display of crafts, candlewick embroidery, chicken scratch embroidery, rag dolls and much more.
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The roomy double bedroom suites were originally plainly decorated, their walls covered with sea grass, the beds under light-colored candlewick counterpanes, and pale Wilton wall-to-wall carpeting.
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When we made our tallow dips or rough candles, we took the candlewicking and wound it around from our hand to our elbow, then cut it through.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
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The wind shifted and a single raindrop came through the window and landed exactly on the candlewick, extinguishing it.
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When you think of seaside hotels, moth-eaten candlewick bedspreads and ferocious landladies usually come to mind.
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When, during the Civil War, Gletkin had fallen into the enemy's hands, they had tied a lighted candlewick on to his shaven skull, to extract from him certain information.
Autumn
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A single tear ran down his face and onto the candlewick bedspread.
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This includes cottage crafts, intarsia woodwork, beautiful lampshades, jewellery, embroidery, candlewicking and heaps more.
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I'd always imagined that the tufts looked like trimmed candlewicks - although a quick search on "candlewicking" suggests that the cotton thread used for candlewicks was also used for the tufting technique.
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If you'd put David Miliband at the other end of the window, clad only in a candlewick bedspread, it would have been even hotter.
Poor, shy, sweet Diana? Don't make me laugh | Barbara Ellen
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Bed & Breakfast has thrown off its traditional candlewick bedspread image and moved upscale.
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This includes cottage crafts, intarsia woodwork, beautiful lampshades, jewellery, embroidery, candlewicking and heaps more.
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After years of climbing under worn candlewick bedspreads with the words ‘breakfast will be at quarter to seven’ ringing in our ears, we were bowled over by the cosy and almost chichi surroundings of Seaview.
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Might not someone else have given Mrs. Thayer a coil of poisoned candlewick with which to mold the fine beeswax candles?
The Secret of the Sealed Room
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I'm probably never going to do candlewicking, either.
The Knitting Curmudgeon
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Hugh lay awake in a tangle of candlewick bedspread.
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He falls asleep while praying on his knees and wakes up with his mouth full of candlewick bedspread.
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When you think of seaside hotels, moth-eaten candlewick bedspreads and ferocious landladies usually come to mind.
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I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
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The roomy double bedroom suites were originally plainly decorated, their walls covered with sea grass, the beds under light-colored candlewick counterpanes, and pale Wilton wall-to-wall carpeting.
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An old iron bed was painted butter yellow and set at an angle in one corner, a traditional candlewick bedspread giving it a timeless appeal.
Priceless
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Behind her, a teddy bear lies on the candlewick bedspread, while downstairs her flatmate is urging their weekly appointment with Dr Finlay's Casebook.
That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review
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The ambiguous Iris Murdoch fights back against Kar's female stereotyping, and succeeds in looking intense, lonely, beautiful and desperate, even though she is leaning on a cosy candlewick bedspread staring at a heap of manuscripts.
Portraits of the artists
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Eliza struck a match and held it to her candlewick, then looked up to where her pinafore was hanging on the back of the door.
The Forgotten Garden
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We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum.
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EA was saying that Candlewick is one of the few houses that puts lists of who-edited-what online Though for my own part, I could only find them by googling "editors name candlewick", not by a cursory glance at the website.
Some Editors Are More Anonymous Than Others
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The bed had a mustard coloured candlewick bedspread
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She never did candlewicking, although she told me that it was a technique that was used extensively throughout Colonial New England down to Pennsylvania.
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She lit the candlewick with a match and watched it sputter and light, then she picked up the black key.
CORALINE
