Dr . Bennett gave his wife laudanum to make her sleepy and had two negro servants support her on the table while Elizabeth's sister, Mrs . Hawkins, held a tallow candle to light the operating table.
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There was no longer any light seen there save that of the tallow candle of the newcomer .'Witch s candle is as good as devil s torch .'The proverb satisfied the gossips of the neighbourhood . ..
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In one experiment, over the course of a day he ate of raw cow's udder, raw beef and tallow candles and four bottles of porter, all of which he ate and drank without defecating, urinating, or vomiting.
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Bulls, illumination & mdash; lights of paper of silk with little tallow candles & mdash; fireworks and a masked ball in the coliseum . . . . Minuets, paspi�s, breta�as, contradances, fandangos, torbellinos, mantas, puntos and jotas were danced.
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The " Dictionary of Misinformation " ( a trivia book dedicated to debunking common misconceptions ), in a section about the claims that a botfly can fly at 800 mph, says that " a tallow candle will penetrate a board at such a velocity ".
