1.   An ancient tallow candle stood fixed in its grease on one of the cross-beams, with a tinder beside it.

2.   Some thick, tallow candles, and jugs and bowls completed the furnishings.

3.   Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.

4.   We groped around in the darkness, found a fat tallow candle and I lit it with my tinder.

5.   I remember trimming the wax from the fat tallow candle in the centre of the table.