Guttering Candle

Guttering Candle: A guttering candle is flickering and about to go out. Perhaps because when a candle reaches the bottom, it has more of a tendency to develop a pool of melted wax and to drip.

Still, he could be found late into the night at his work table, huddled over the papyrus scroll and writing Greek and Hebrew characters by the flickering light of a half-dozen guttering candles.