Candlesticks
[kændl,stɪks]
Examples
- It grew dark, and they put candles on the tables--candles set in bright, new, brazen candlesticks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Is sure he is at the head of a lodge, and wears short aprons, and is made a perfect idol of with candlesticks and trowels. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is not there, but his two old-fashioned candlesticks are, and the room is tolerably light. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Tupman rang the bell, purchased the tickets, and ordered chamber candlesticks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- On a dirty table stand scores of corresponding brass candlesticks with tallow candles for the lodgers, whose keys hang up in rows over the candles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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