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Example sentences for "braziers"

Lexicographically close words:
brazed; brazen; brazenly; brazenness; brazier; brazing; brazo; breach; breached; breaches
  1. At its distant end there were the same flaming braziers with figures around them, and the same glitter of arms.

  2. Some tents were in darkness, in others a candle burned, and here and there braziers still glowed redly.

  3. Inside there were some already asleep on the beds, in the middle of the wide court under the braziers a woman dressed in blue was singing very gently, she did not move, but sung on and on, I never heard a song that was so soothing.

  4. Thomas Atkins has become a patron of braziers made by punching holes in buckets; and so have the Germans.

  5. Those braziers and cooking pots," he had said, "and the tools that must have been needed to build the steps and to dig their graves, prove that they know how to work in iron.

  6. Flurries of snow beat on windows, and draughts stirred the hot ashes in the braziers and sent the smoke from them in odd spirals about the chamber.

  7. The braziers were fed with dry chips of pine-wood, and the maid-servants relieved each other from time to time in the duty of keeping up the fires.

  8. Presently the doors were opened, and by the flickering light of the braziers Odysseus, for the first time after twenty years, saw the face of his wife.

  9. II When evening came on, the wooers ordered three braziers to be set up in the hall, to give them light as they sat at their pastimes.

  10. As he stooped over one of the braziers and stirred the fuel into a blaze, Eurymachus noticed the red gleam which was reflected from the smooth, bald crown of the supposed beggar.

  11. Here and there the furs are thrown back to afford a deserving public glimpses of a toilette well worth seeing; and it is around the braziers that all Paris first gains an idea of the fashions that are to dominate spring and summer.

  12. Tall braziers are set at intervals along the front of the stand, and near them hover swarms of women drawing sable coats together over frocks of chiffon and lace, showing faces a trifle blue with cold beneath flower-laden hats.

  13. Only the social elect may skate at the Cercle des Patineurs in the Bois, and there one finds the society women of Paris gliding over the ice or chatting around the braziers on the banks of the horseshoe lake.

  14. Great blazing braziers here and there illuminated the weird place with a red uncertain glare, which falling on the faces of the crowd of devotees, showed that they had worked themselves into a frenzy of religious fervour.

  15. Jars and vases filled with water and wine, braziers full of sweet-smelling leaves, and plates of food were placed beside each, offerings for the use of the dead.

  16. Nothing could warm those great rooms wherein there was not a single fireplace; braziers placed in the middle of the rooms only served to emphasise winter's triumph.

  17. People were constantly found in the streets who had not even as much warmth as the braziers at the Séminaire des Nobles, or King Joseph's army bread, lying down on the thresholds of the great in tattered cloaks and dying of hunger and cold.

  18. There was the usual scramble for the few braziers our generous predecessors had left behind.

  19. When the General came up next morning, the camp was reeking with smoke from braziers and the smell of cookers and the wood alive with sounds of woodchopping and cries of foragers.

  20. They were bound in the chairs, the burning braziers were placed at their feet, behind them stood a clerk with paper and an inkhorn, and around them Indians were busy at some dreadful task, directed to it by two Spanish soldiers.

  21. As I looked, an Indian lifted one of the braziers and seizing the naked foot of the Tacuban prince, thrust it down upon the glowing coals.

  22. And midway by the braziers they placed torches, and the maids of Odysseus, of the hardy heart, held up the lights in turn.

  23. Anon they set up three braziers in the halls, to give them light, and on these they laid firewood all around, faggots seasoned long since and sere, and new split with the axe.

  24. He had tea, rum, socks, oil, and food all ready for those who were coming back, and the lighted braziers were glowing red.

  25. The last of those who came back--and there were many who never came back--were some hours later than the first company, having found it hard to crawl along that Via Dolorosa which led to the good place where the braziers were glowing.

  26. The smoke from the herbs smouldering in the braziers seemed almost to blot out the courtyard from view.

  27. They arrived at a poor house in the native quarter, where they were ushered into a small courtyard thick with the dense smoke arising from two braziers burning mysterious compounds.

  28. By day the Bactrians thronged their battlements, gibing at their foes, while at night the walls were lighted by flaring braziers clamped beneath the jut-stones and fed with pitch through slits which pierced the masonry.

  29. When darkness fell, great braziers of oil and fat were lighted in the hall of the conquered citadel, and there the King made feast in honor of his victory.

  30. Braziers now came into general use, and quickly became objects of ornament as well as of utility.

  31. And sitting in the middle of it on some sort of little chair, with what looked like two charcoal braziers smoking to either side of her, was Miss Nefer with a string of extras in Elizabethan hats with cloaks pulled around them.

  32. Ben Shaw, see that the braziers are all blackened.

  33. The braziers in the courtyard had been lighted and cast a glare over two score half-clothed men and women who had been aroused from their beds by the commotion of the conflict on the hillside.

  34. The amado are tight closed, the braziers well supplied.

  35. Clever indeed have been the native braziers in the past--and they still are--for they possess in addition to knowledge of coppersmithing an excellent knowledge of the composition and working qualities of the materials they employ.

  36. Such braziers were also used by the Romans, and even in the Middle Ages were not uncommon, pepper and cloves being then burned for fragrance.

  37. There are braziers and some vessels of bulbous form, mostly of bronze, and now and then Turkish collapsible lanterns of brass with pierced decorations are met with.

  38. Many years ago the Braziers joined the Armourers, claiming, however, a monopoly of all copper and brasswork.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "braziers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.