dim-burning

Updated: May 4, 2025

Now being yet heavy with sleep, Beltane arose and followed her through an opening in the arras near by, and down a narrow stair, stumbling often as he went and walking as one in a dream. So by devious ways Winfrida brought him into a little chapel, where, upon the altar, was a crucifix with candles dim-burning in the gloom.

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith

Or the lids of those Tombs; square sarcophaguses, in that silent dim-burning Hall, each with its Soul in torment; the lids laid open there; they are to be shut at the Day of Judgment, through Eternity. And how Farinata rises; and how Cavalcante falls at hearing of his Son, and the past tense "fue"! The very movements in Dante have something brief; swift, decisive, almost military.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History