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    1. The upper half of a broken lamp wedged them in, its charred wick still present


    2. Waiting awhile for the leaf to brew, she watched Latrandura fill the bowl of her pipe, tamp it down and then light it from a wick


    3. As he lit the wick inside the lantern, a song waved from his chest softly at


    4. just the wick will remain


    5. of the wick is placed over


    6. Only the smell of the burnt wick, and the caretaker’s words, lingered


    7. Like… there was one idiot who wanted to be looked at, so I had to stand beside him and gawk as though I was interested while he dipped his wick


    8. As he cut, he blew—softer than the lowest whistle—and the white sparks jumped away from his face to the wick of the wax candle


    9. The big man shrugged and turned to adjust the wick in the lantern


    10. The flame gets larger as the wax above the wick melts quickly catching the carpet alight underneath

    11. shelf and place the wick into the warm coals that were left from the recent fire in the


    12. On his way back to the workshop he noticed the odor of the wick that Santa Sofía de la Piedad was using to light the stoves, and he waited in the kitchen for the coffee to boil so that he could take along his mug without sugar


    13. Having a thin wick,


    14. a small hole to place his homemade wick


    15. The wick was


    16. The papery wick was now


    17. direction of the wick like something being struck by a magic


    18. Even though the papery wick had been saturated in


    19. grain alcohol, as the hours passed much of the wick had


    20. pool of molten wax, the wick protruding limply from the centre

    21. a steady flame began to burn on the wet wick of the


    22. His golden, lever-action Cartier wick


    23. It’s roots find itself in a ‘wicker,’ you know, the wick in a candle, it’s all twisted, twisted cord or ‘wicker,’ the twisting that causes people to get involved in spiritualism


    24. When a lamp is kept where there is not a whiff of air, its wick burns


    25. The spirit in the other abode will envelope the body and surround it from all sides as the flame of a candle completely surrounds its wick


    26. In the other abode, the spirit will envelop the body and surround it on all sides, as the flame of a candle completely surrounds its wick


    27. If we suppose that the wick of a candle is a body, then its flame and its light would be the spirit


    28. For, his spirit was surrounding its body as the flame of a candle surrounds the wick from all direction


    29. ” He leaned over and kissed my forehead, then turned down the lamp’s wick


    30. Enough scant light spilled from the wick of my lantern to reveal a small personal traveling box that looked very familiar; it was caked in year’s worth of dust and grime

    31. "I wonder how many other men in this town have dipped their wick in that well?"


    32. It is so oily that it can be dried and then placed on the end of a stick with a piece of bark stuck into its mouth, and when that bark is lit it burns like a candle wick because of all the fish oil


    33. “Unless it had a wick like a candle which was lit fi rst?” asked


    34. “I’m the verbal-spit Smith Wesson, I unload with sick spit the quick wick could split a


    35. split-second, bomb with a lit wick expression, you here a tick tick, then you testing…”


    36. After a few short turns on the wheel, a steady flame began to burn on the wet wick of the lighter, bringing each candle into light


    37. His golden, lever-action Cartier wick lighter was just shooting sparks as he turned the horizontal wheel that operated the flint


    38. Snuffdishes: Used to catch the trimmed wick


    39. Look with me please at verses 16 and 17 again: “This is what the Lord says—He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick


    40. struck one and lit the wick

    41. Nor put out the smoldering wick


    42. Accordingly, the wick is the top or head of the candle, where the fire burns


    43. Accordingly, the wick is the


    44. Also called a “cool mist” humidifier, this type of appliance uses a reservoir, wick, and filter to disperse room temperature water vapor into the air


    45. A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;


    46. In the air there passed sooty albatross with four–meter wingspans, birds aptly dubbed "vultures of the ocean," also gigantic petrels including several with arching wings, enthusiastic eaters of seal that are known as quebrantahuesos,* and cape pigeons, a sort of small duck, the tops of their bodies black and white—in short, a whole series of petrels, some whitish with wings trimmed in brown, others blue and exclusive to these Antarctic seas, the former "so oily," I told Conseil, "that inhabitants of the Faroe Islands simply fit the bird with a wick, then light it up


    47. The paper wick had sucked most of it into the fibers


    48. This was her one and only back-up plan: to light the wick and throw the can on the roof


    49. While I was considering that some one must have been there lately and must soon be coming back, or the candle would not be burning, it came into my head to look if the wick were long


    50. It was still raining and the lamp in the cart was nearly out, so Sawkins trimmed the wick and relit it before they started






































    1. Psalms: 37:34: Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are


    2. Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; but


    3. not know) and recalled that wicked face with whitish eyes and tangled


    4. I like Molly … she’s got a wicked sense of humour


    5. Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked


    6. When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, y enemies and


    7. Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor of trouble from the wicked


    8. ‘You’re a wicked, evil woman … it’s your fault Joanna was unfaithful … it’s your fault!’


    9. Fred makes Betty’s day by kissing her and giving her a present of a bunch of roses – the wicked flirt that he is! I sometimes wonder just how involved he is with those two – I don’t watch their comings and goings but I am under no illusions, and do not believe for a moment the people who maintain that elderly people have no sex lives


    10. I have already admired it – a shade of wool to match her name … there are a few grey hairs showing round the back of his ears, I think to myself then I suddenly realise that he’s watching me in the rear view mirror with a faint smile on his face and blush violently … the smile becomes a wicked grin as he replies to something Wally is saying

    11. It is said that humans become wicked and do evil so as to get more money and a higher social status


    12. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    13. If Israel is wicked, all nations are wicked


    14. He was unwilling to protect his own people, and is thus considered equally a bad shepherd as the wicked priests


    15. The tooth it threw was huge with a wicked straight-edge point, one like he hadn't seen in thirty centuries


    16. The one with the wicked tooth launcher had disappeared from view


    17. Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it


    18. All of the wicked will perish


    19. He declares that He will completely abolish the wicked rulers and the wicked men that blaspheme and desecrate His name among the nations


    20. This is why the decree is made by Peter to come out from this wicked generation

    21. made it clear to “is ’onour” what a wicked thing I was


    22. ’ He conceded, a wicked look in his eyes


    23. Kate smiled at him and asked, “You’ve got that wicked smile on your face, what’s up?”


    24. A wicked expression appears in his eyes


    25. The experts sat and watched each contestant, and as all such experts are trained to do, they sat there in po-faced silence until, with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time for judgement


    26. Disappointed, Rayne stepped back and looked over the gate at Lord Tarak just as he turned his head, smiled a wicked smile, and winked at her


    27. ‘You’ve not seen her in action before, have you?’ he asked quietly, a wicked smile in his eyes


    28. This is going to be interesting; he thought as he gave her his most wicked smile


    29. She cracked wicked jokes or made


    30. They made wicked, lusty, rushed love; as tho’ they might be found out any second

    31. Her smile was crisp and bright, her eyes shone with a wicked


    32. with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time


    33. 32Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, and


    34. 49So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked


    35. 22And he says unto him, Out of thane own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked


    36. wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart


    37. 26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knew


    38. 41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his


    39. He that is soon angry deals foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated


    40. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule,

    41. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor


    42. The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion


    43. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD


    44. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall


    45. 15He that justifies the wicked and he that condemns the just, even they both are


    46. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire


    47. 17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there


    48. 10 So I saw the wicked buried


    49. 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked,


    50. according to the work of the wicked










































    1. Shirts with wicking quality,


    2. With communism wicking across the Far East, America’s leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security


    3. Then it popped up and held, instead of wicking


    1. It would certainly be some kind of trick with hidden wicks and special fuel, but he'd seen people spit fire so he figured there would be some way to perform that circus stunt also


    2. Each location had a cannon and a storage crate that held a ram-rod, gunpowder, cloth wicks, matches, and a spyglass


    3. CONSUMERS PAY THEIR BILLS ONLINE, SAYS JUDY WICKS OF CHECKFREE, THE


    4. She had sparkly yellow eyes with pupils that showed lighted candle wicks blowing in the wind


    5. As they eventually moved from the circle of light provided by the hotel and into the total blackness that surrounded them and cloaked them, Feltus and the other men turned up the wicks in their kerosene lanterns, suddenly flaring spectacularly then subsiding to cast a dim but well-needed glow to guide their progress; this, combined with the almost-constant flashes of lightning that reminded them of reporters’


    6. Normally, if armed with the standard matchlock pistol found today in Japan, Jenny would never have the time now to light the wicks and fire, something the ninjas had probably counted on


    7. It they could not light their wicks quickly enough, they would then be powerless to slow down the enemy charge


    8. was a tall brass affair, witha number of wicks fitted into


    9. there was oil in them and Adrian lit the wicks and the flooring warmly glowed in geometric-patterned parquet


    10. As the wicks burst into flame, apparently of their own accord, her parents recoiled, gasping

    11. consumers pay their bills online, says Judy Wicks of CheckFree, the leading provider of electronic-billing and payment services


    12. He entered cautiously, the space was dim—like the wicks had all been turned low to preserve the oil in the lamps


    13. 32) “It is the Root that never dies; the Three-tongued Flame of the Four Wicks


    14. The Wicks are the Sparks, that draw from the Three-tongued Flame shot out by the Seven - their Flame - the Beams and Sparks of one Moon reflected in the running Waves of all the Rivers of Earth


    15. The Sparks, the Wicks – all these are synonyms for the concept of "Soul"


    16. The wicks of the candles flickered


    17. Instead of bars, their charts had rows of candles with wicks at both ends


    18. We know this because there are no wicks on the candles, as the price moves steadily higher, with the volume rising to support the price action and validating the price


    19. We have no wicks to any candles, and the market is falling with rising volume


    20. These candles may be less pronounced than the true hammer, perhaps with relatively shallow wicks, but the principle will be the same

    21. The key point about this type of doji candle, is that both the upper and lower wicks are long in comparison to the body, and should resemble what I used to call, a 'daddy long legs' – a small flying insect with very long legs!


    22. This buying is then seen in subsequent candles with deep lower wicks, but generally with relatively deep bodies


    23. This is the price action we are seeing reflected in the deep upper wicks to each subsequent candle


    24. The market then goes into consolidation with above average volume and narrow spread up candles with wicks to the upper body, confirming the initial weakness first seen in the trend higher


    25. This charts displays candles of varying width and height due to the volume aspect, but with the upper and lower wicks added


    26. On this chart we see our traditional wicks to the top and bottom of each candle


    27. BELLA: What was the price to cover above the wicks, 22


    28. Now, our only concern is this: How do we capture some of the new patterns being created by these low-volume wicks?


    29. • Fade wicks to the upside of stocks clearly in a downtrend and play for a return to the mean


    30. Rudy: That is where the wicks go up to there, there, and pretty good there (Rudy motions to the wicks on the long-term chart

    31. The air didn’t have that undisturbed taste, and the lamps were burning well on fresh-cut wicks


    32. The flames jittered around the wicks, casting


    33. around the wicks as I tried to control the emotions rising up in me


    34. For example, when you see very small range days with a lot of wicks, you know that this is a time of uncertainty and we should be prepared for a lot of intraday reversals


    35. Wicks are also known as shadows or tails


    36. The wicks or shadows illustrate the highest and lowest prices at which a security has traded over a specific time period


    37. These are termed “upper shadow” and “lower shadow” and also are called wicks or tails


    38. There are thousands of uses for ropes and line, from securing constructional joints to making candle wicks, for rappelling down a cliff face to making snares and nets


    39. Long wicks show that the preceding trend could be beginning to run out of steam and that the market is thinking about trying to reverse direction


    40. Long wicks are just one of the tools we use to analyse potential market turning points

    41. There are wicks in both directions and the candles are shorter


    42. In candlestick terms, the candles cannot overlap—not even the wicks of the candles


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    Synonyms for "wick"

    taper wick

    "wick" definitions

    any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action


    a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame