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Meanings of small taper in English

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Usage of small taper in English
1
The small taper which burnt in the room showed faintly the sleeping face.
Thyrza
2
And a single small taper is infinitely greater in point of light and cheer than none at all.
Bertram Cope's Year
3
By the light of the small taper there was a mutual search for it-whymutual Miss Gascoigne best knew.
Christian's Mistake
4
She leapt up to Owen in one bound, her small taper fingers extended like the leaves of a lupine.
Desperate Remedies
5
A small taper made the darkness visible; and the third night, by its glimmering light, she wrote the following fragment.
Mary: A Fiction
6
A small taper on the edge of the table shed a feeble light, which sufficed to show me that he was fully dressed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
7
In the oven, this unevenness causes the small tapered end to dry out long before the thicker portion is cooked.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
8
It grows two or three leagues from the mouth of the Jordan, and is of a thorny appearance, with small tapering leaves.
Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Pr...
9
But when Jondalar went to check, he found that the broken point attached to the small tapered shaft was embedded firmly in the target.
The Plains of Passage
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