In an instant he had seized a heavy silver candelabrum from the table and swung it like a weapon towards the Count, who recoiled a step,--not from the menaced blow, but from the face confronting him.
But the lad shook himself free as a wounded stag shakes off the murderous pack, then dashed the candelabrum on the ground, and rushed to the door.
Beyond the candelabrum is one whose parted hair and coquettish pose of the head give a feminine look to the figure.
One seems to be lighting a candelabrum with a flambeau; another carries a bowl which may be used for incense.
Quick as a passing sunshadow, his hand swept the candelabrum from the table.
Moriarty lighted a four-branched candelabrum and showed us the way to the little private dining-room, took our orders, and left us.
As she sat there beneath the glare of the candelabrum she positively blazed with gems.
As I said this I held out the clasp, which flashed brightly as it caught the rays of the large candelabrum overhead.
Angelo, the third son of Magister Paulus, had a son named Niccolo, and the two together made the candelabrum of S.
When, on the contrary, the stem was short, the stand was known as a candelabrum humile, and rested on a table or a stool.
It is said that the finest piece of work accomplished in the country was the great sixteenth-century candelabrum or tenebrarium in Seville Cathedral, the work of Bart.
One of the greatest triumphs of that period was the great candelabrum in Milan Cathedral, wrought in the thirteenth century.
A fine Venetian bronze candelabrum (one of a pair), now in a private collection, is shown in Fig.
But one day, the queen-mother coming into his apartment suddenly, found the door of the candelabrum open, and the princess sitting talking with the prince.
When it was over, the princess went away into her candelabrum again; and the next night the prince said to his servant: 'In case anyone eats my supper while I am out, you had better bring up a double portion.
When all the people saw what a costly candelabrum it was, no one would offer for it.
Somehow the aspect of these two persons displeased me; yet I decided, for all that, to light my cigarette at the candelabrum which was standing before them.
The word was formerly used for any form of support on which lights, whether candles or lamps, were fixed; thus a candelabrum (q.
The most ancient example is the bronze candelabrum made by Callimachus for the Erechtheum at Athens, to carry the lamp sacred to Minerva.
Blow out all the candles except the candelabrum on the table.
The lamps might either be simply placed on a candelabrum or else suspended from it.
A primitive example of lamp and candelabrum shaft combined is shown in No.
Martial, in an epigram, warns the possessor of such a wooden candelabrum to take care that the whole stand does not turn into one blazing candle.
A candelabrum completely covered with chiselled flowers was burning at the far end, and each of its eight golden branches bore a wick of byssus in a diamond chalice.
At each of the four corners is a colossal candelabrum of cast iron, with entwining serpents of bronze gilded.
It had been set back against the wall where it properly belonged, and the candelabrum removed.
In putting back the drawers I hit the candelabrum with my foot, upsetting it and throwing out the burning candle.
Had Mr. Jeffrey placed the small stand holding the candelabrum on the spot where it had been found?
The steps taken between the table where the candelabrum stood and the place where she lay, were taken, if taken at all by her, before that shot was fired.
The other, that he had carried up to her room a large candelabrum from the drawing-room mantel.
Surely a candlestick, or rather an old-fashioned candelabrum with a half-burned candle in one of its sockets.
The handkerchief, also, was missing from the mantel where I had left it, and when I opened the closet door, it was to find the floor bare and the second candelabrum and candle removed.
The same I used upstairs, of course" "And you can not remember where you left this candle and candelabrum when you finally quitted the house?
For when I found myself possessed of sufficient consciousness to withdraw from that hole of death, the candle in the candelabrum was shorter by an inch than when I first thrust my head into the gap made by the removed drawers.
My next move was toward the little table holding the candelabrum with the glittering pendants.
Quite determined to reread such portions of it, as I had long before marked as pertinent to the very attempt I had in mind, I brought in the candelabrum from the parlor and drew out a table to hold it.
All I have told about using matches to light me to the southwest chamber is true, also my coming upon the old candelabrum there, with a candle in one of its sockets.
Neither had the candelabrum been standing there long, dust being found under as well as around it.
The candles in the candelabrum were already half burned down when Fran Dubois at last urged going to rest.
Yet she was alone; but she had scarcely stirred when Frau Dubois appeared with a maid-servant bearing a candelabrum with lighted candles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candelabrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
