...Both lamps burned sweet oil with a wick, and each had a chimney of horn, not at all unlike a modern lamp-chimney...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The bowl was filled with grease and a rag or wick placed in it, one end resting on the edge for lighting...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...Wax cats also, witha cotton wick coming out at the top of the head...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
..."Good girl!" whispered the Master; and stepping backward,he turned yet lower than it was the wick of his shaded lamp...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...The same light that falls on the intellect falls also on passion, whereof none can tell whether it be the smoke of the flame or the wick...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...It is, in short, the mechanismof a lamp which is regulated by the access of air to the wick...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...It is as it were the flame of the lamp, which, whether full or empty, continues to give light so long as the wick is soaked in oil...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...A candle blown out that moment and still retaining a red tip to its wick is lowered by a wire into a small test jar filled with my product...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...I, a rough blunderer, do more than blow out the lamp: I throw away the wick and all is over...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...It is, in short, the mechanism ofa lamp which is regulated by the access of air to the wick...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Then they receive from their mothers presents of piecesof wick...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The oil will rise to the top and the wick will burn as long as there isoil to burn...
Various 「Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913」
...Twirling the wheel, while Professor Prescott held his breath, hesucceeded in kindling a flame on its tiny wick...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
..."Oh, the usual five or six I suppose,"I answered as I adjusted the wick ofmy lantern, hearing as I did the snarland cut of the wind through the evergreensin the yard...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
...My pillow wasChinese, and the hardest part of the bed; my portmanteau was beside meand served as a desk; a Chinese candle, more wick than wax, stuck into aturnip, gave me light...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
... There was a woman livin' on a farm there named Mrs Hardwick—an' she was a hard wick...
Henry Lawson 「Children of the Bush」
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