...The part held in the hand is nearly an inch in thickness; and, from the extreme end of the butt or handle, the cowskin tapers its whole length to a point... 
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...The greatest dimension is a little in advance ofthe anal sucker; the body thence tapers to the other extremity,which ends in an upper lip projecting considerably beyond themouth...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Electric tapers were burning dimly inGovernor-General Van Schouten's sanctumat the paleis that evening as Peter Gross wasushered in...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...How beautifully her body tapers, how distinguished she looks, how deliberate her movements! The bees do not fall down before her, but caress her and touch her person...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...The tail of the former, moreover, is not of the trowel-shape, but tapers like that of the common rat...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The tabernacle work tapers very gradually, and forms a charming finishto one of the finest tombs to be seen anywhere...
H. J. L. J. Massé 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury」
...Such a rollwas called an “Exultet” from its first word,which is the beginning of the line “Exultet jamAngelica turba cælorum” of the hymn for thebenediction of the paschal wax tapers on EasterEve...
John W. Bradley 「Illuminated Manuscripts」
...The darkness was feeblydispelled by the light of wax tapers carried by the guide and myself;and the aspect of the narrow, low-browed passages and chambers wasgloomy in the extreme...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...But this night, at midnight, herecame a number of ladies, and brought hither a dead corpse, and prayed me tobury him; and here they offered an hundred tapers, and they gave me an hundredbesants...
Thomas Malory 「Le Morte D’Arthur, Volume II (of II)」
...There were many tapers and candles lighted all about...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...With that Sir Lancelot saw the chapel open, and the candlestick with thesix tapers come before the cross, but he could see none who bare it...
Unknown 「King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table」
...Ornate but crude censers were in the hands of two priests; the incensewas lit by long tapers, and its acrid odor wound up in wavering purplespirals of smoke...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
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