How to use "candle" in a sentence

Then he returned to the yard with a candle and a friend

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

He lit a candle and sat by the bed, watching her while she slept

He blew out the candle and, just as he was kissing Cosette on the forehead, the footsteps stopped

Someone with a candle was standing outside his room.

Jean Valjean, meanwhile, went home, lit his candle and went upstairs to bed

She always goes for a run in the evening, but this time she waits until he falls asleep in a chair in the lounge, and she puts a candle to the curtains

I changed into dry clothes, lit a candle, and wrote down the conversation

He had probably taken a candle with him into the vestry, because by then it was dark