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’[265] In the Schreiber collection at South Kensington may be seen a pair of candlesticks with twisted stems made of this white opaque Bristol glass.
In Lionel Marks's antique saleshop window haughty Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags.
He had left his desk, brought out his two greasy office candlesticks and stood them in line with the snuffers on a slab near the door, ready to be extinguished; he had raked his fire low, put his hat and great-coat ready, and was beating himself all over the chest with his safe-key, as an athletic exercise after business.
A thick and dingy Turkey-carpet muffles the floor where he sits, attended by two candles in old-fashioned silver candlesticks that give a very insufficient light to his large room.
He is not there, but his two old-fashioned candlesticks are, and the room is tolerably light.
Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans.
" My Lady, whose chronic malady of boredom has been sadly aggravated by Volumnia this evening, glances wearily towards the candlesticks and heaves a noiseless sigh.
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.
Other exhibits include gilded thrones studded with precious stones, a pair of solid gold candlesticks set with 666 diamonds (one for each verse of the Koran), and reliquaries containing the hand and part of the skull of John the Baptist.
It is bottled in very distinctive stone flagons which make wonderful souvenirs - and excellent rustic candlesticks when you have drunk the contents, if the interiors of a hundred “brown bars” are to be believed.
It is bottled in very distinctive stone flagons which make wonderful souvenirs - and excellent rustic candlesticks when you have drunk the contents, if the interiors of a hundred “brown bars” are to be believed.
At the table set for 22 guests, Hearst’s dilettantism is emphasized by the sight of splendid, solid silver Queen Anne candlesticks and wine cisterns, which are set beside tomato ketchup, pickles, and mustard, all in their original bottles and jars.
Bread-pans, large and small pattypans, cake-pans, with a centre tube to insure their baking well, pie-dishes, (of block-tin,) a covered butter-kettle, covered kettles to hold berries, two sauce-pans, a large oil-can, (with a cock,) a lamp-filler, a lantern, broad-bottomed candlesticks for the kitchen, a candle-box, a funnel or tunnel, a reflector, for baking warm cakes, an oven or tin-kitchen, an apple-corer, an apple-roaster, an egg-boiler, two sugar-scoops, and flour and meal-scoop, a set of mugs, three dippers, a pint, quart, and gallon measure, a set of scales and weights, three or four pails, painted on the outside, a slop-bucket, with a[Pg 321] tight cover, painted on the outside, a milk-strainer, a gravy-strainer, a colander, a dredging-box, a pepper-box, a large and small grater, a box, in which to keep cheese, also a large one for cake, and a still larger one for bread, with tight covers.
117 The Melicourvis baya had already discovered this method of lighting, and the mysterious little balls of clay were nothing more than candlesticks in which these birds set Glow-worms, when they are fresh, to act as candles.
re gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room and at the people in it.
Round a long table covered with black sat some twelve men in garments like those he had already seen.
Some of them Pierre had met in Petersburg society.
In the President's chair sat a young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his neck.
On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at Anna Pavlovna's two years before.
There were also present a very distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the Kuragins'.
All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words of the President, who held a mallet in his hand.
Let into the wall was a star-shaped light.
At one side of the table was a small carpet with various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an altar on which lay a Testament and a skull.
Round it stood seven large candlesticks like those used in churches.
Two of the brothers led Pierre up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple.
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