Votive lamps are kept lit on each side of a picture of the deceased, their tenacious and fragile flames symbolizing the affection of the living.

She had not realized a tiny fragile flame could burn with such intensity.

I find it incredible that you, a fragile flame, should be potentially immortal, and that you and your kind should have survived for countless millions of years, since you inhabited the sun.

Meantime there gathered around him a court where some of the old Latin literature was encouraged like a fragile flame.

The grief-stricken old man in blue of the St Rémy days sits head in hand on just such a shining chair by a fire with fragile flames.

So that a new, fragile flame of love came out of the ashes of this last pain.

Every evening, she counted the fragile, brilliant flames of her kin, and was thereby comforted.

Ah, tender and worn little thing, ah, creature reduced to thought and will with a body insubstantial like a fragile flame!

It is still possible that a good bill will emerge this year, but only if Democrats and moderate Republicans hold firm to protect the fragile flame of good sense against the deter-and-deport crowd.

He turned to me, her fragile flame throwing his shadow across me.