There were a dozen wax candles burning in silver sconces on the table within.
It was dusk, and there were a few lights burning in the old silver sconces fixed upon the horns of forest animals against the walls.
The candles in the sconces will burn for another hour.
An elderly maid was lighting candles in sconces round the walls.
At present the great saloon was lighted by seven immense lustres of fifty candles each, and with twenty sconces each bearing fifteen candles.
And, in what De Roquemaure felt were his last moments, he saw her suddenly rush at the sconces and knock the candles out of them on to the stone floor, where they lay guttering.
Quoth the King, "Write letters and send them by couriers to all the countries and cities and sconces and fortresses that be under our hands, bidding their chiefs be present on such a day at the Horse-course of the Elephant.
But the walls were hung all over with wreaths and holly: and there were wax candles in the sconces all ready for lighting the next day.
The crescets and sconces were lighted in the great hall, and all those who were to be honoured with a seat at the banquet of the evening were beginning to assemble in the lesser hall.
In the bare spaces between these silver sconces were the heads of wild animals mingled with many rifles, both old and new, and other arms of the hunter.
On the rough walls there were also large sconces of burnished silver but poorly filled with tallow candles.
There were candles in their sconces over the mantel and she moved nearer to have the better light.
For the rest, in the dim recesses beyond the rays of the lamplight on the table, there were to be found the wrought-iron sconces upon the walls, which had once doubtless served to support the light of blazing torches.
Considerable light was shed from the antique sconces upon the walls, as also by the silver candelabra upon the long refectory table which ran down the centre of the room.
The lanthorn did but make darkness visible, but Solomon proceeded to light two rushlights that stood in iron sconces on the wall, and by their light the Lieutenant discerned three truckle-beds laid between two of the windows.
The lights were in sconces on the walls, and had not suffered.
Here was not even a drop-light for him to do it by, only electric sconces set high upon the walls, and a fanciful centre electrolier.
He must, perforce--for he needs a strong light for reading--have stood close under one of the sconces to read from his book of essays.
Edward raised himself on his elbow, and, by the light of seven gigantic tapers, set in sconces of massive silver, the priest and the king gravely gazed on each other without speaking.
The squire, at a gesture from the earl, lighted the sconceson the wall, the tapers on the table, and quickly vanished.
But he felt the strange impulse of the old-world music urging him forward, and did not even pause to light the candles which stood ready in their sconces on either side of the desk.
The flames of the candles in their silver sconces waxed paler and paler, the lines and shadows on my brother's face grew darker, and the pallor of his wasted features showed more striking in the bright rays of the morning sun.
The lights in the lanterns were flickering in their sconces and expiring.
Naught disturbed the profound silence of the night save the cracking of the crystalsconces as one after another the candles expired.
The floor was then strewn with fresh rushes, and candles were placed and lighted in sconces on the walls, and in two large candlesticks, one on each side of the marquis's chair.
The candles that lighted that room of hers were placed in sconces on the wall.
She carried a bare candle in her hand, which she had probably taken from one of the sconces in her own room, and was a most unearthly object by its light.
It was filled with gems which were either in gold calabashes fastened like sconces upon sheets of brass, or were ranged in native masses at the foot of the wall.
The general declared it foolish to put candles on the table when we could have sconces by the dozen on the walls.
She had no possible idea how alluring was that face as the light from the sconces nearby fell upon it.
The lights from the sconcesdanced together and blurred.
No one was excluded from the decoration thereof, since that was the best part of the sport to those too old for the mystery--and yet young enough to fasten sconces where their candles would infallibly set fire to the twigs above them.
The dark colour of this finishing was relieved by the number of lights in silver sconces which hung against the walls, and by six large and richly-framed pictures, by the first masters of the age.
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