Candlesticks in example sentence

By the last gleam of the twilight one could see that his face was rubicund and his form athletic."What can I do for you, Monsieur le Curie?" asked the landlady, as she reached down from the chimney one of the copper candlesticks placed with their candles in a row.

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Set out any flowers, candlesticks, or other decorations you like.

So in this painting by Magritte, noticing that there are no tracks under the train, there is no fire in the fireplace and there are no candles in the candlesticks actually more accurately describes the painting than if you were to say, "Well, there's a train coming out of a fireplace, and there are candlesticks on the mantle."

It could probably use a ballroom dance scene and maybe some singing candlesticks, but there are some pretty gross plants instead.

Powell and Rainer are opposing foreign agents who each hide their documents in a pair of candlesticks to be brought to Russia as a gift to a noblewoman.

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