Citations:candlewasting
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English citations of candlewasting
- 1600, Edward, transl. Blount, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles[1], translation of L'Hospidale de' pazzi incurabili by Tomaso Garzoni:
- […] when I (which haue known you better and more inwardly, then a thousand of these Candle-wasting-Booke Wormes) can affirme you to be the most bounteous, open-handed, firme, vnswayed, constant Ladie vnder Heauen.
- 1974, Richard Gardner, Richard Cummings, The adventures of Don Juan, page 78:
- But I soon found that I could no longer confine my candlewasting to my study room, now that lofty endeavor had found its laboratory.
- 2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army:
- He'd seen Rupert's boys up close often enough and wasn't keen on renewing their acquaintance, even if that candle-wasting clod Telling had been in amongst them.