例文・使い方で印象づける「tapers」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... Don Quixote and Sancho obeyed him and went to where the show was already put up and uncovered, set all around with lighted wax tapers which made it look splendid and bright... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...The tree is of no great thickness, and tapers gradually to a point...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...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 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」
...On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...Lovely, rose-crownedangels hold court on either side, bearing lighted tapers in jars ofroses...
Estelle M. Hurll 「The Madonna in Art」
...He has tapers taken out from the boxes, and they light them within the tent...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...But thirty knights mount guard over her, and there are ten tapers burning there, which light up the place all about...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...’Twas richly garnished, and fourgreat tapers, cunningly placed, gave fittinglight...
Anonymous Jessie L. Weston 「Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys」
...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」
...At itssouth-west end, where there is an extensive dry sandy key, andsome dry rocks, it is two miles wide: but towards its northernend it tapers away to the breadth of a quarter of a mile...
Phillip Parker King 「Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]」
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