Candlestick

(noun.) a holder with sockets for candles.

整理:露丝

• Are you any fresher now, or do you want the iron candlestick to wake you thoroughly? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• At that moment, Mistress Affery (of course, the woman with the apron) dropped the candlestick she held, and cried out, 'There! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I vow to Saint Nicholas of Limoges a candlestick of pure gold-- Spare thy vow, said the Templar, and mark me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• No, sir, only the candlestick on the ground. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You know it is a mere bachelor's room, continued he, lighting a long tallow-candle by a short piece, which was burning in a broken candlestick. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There was a candle burning, but the man hastily drew it from the candlestick, and hurled it under the grate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• There was a bit of cheese and bread, and a tin candlestick on the table, and a little black porter in a pint-pot. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The candlestick has been removed from Ephesus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He took hold of the candlestick, but stood motionless for a long while. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Wilfer returned, candlestick in hand, to the bosom of his family, he found the bosom agitated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I opened it softly and found Miss Jellyby shivering there with a broken candle in a broken candlestick in one hand and an egg-cup in the other. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I'm sure you don't want me to admire butchers and bakers, and candlestick-makers, do you, mamma? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It grew dark, and they put candles on the tables--candles set in bright, new, brazen candlesticks. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He is not there, but his two old-fashioned candlesticks are, and the room is tolerably light. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Tupman rang the bell, purchased the tickets, and ordered chamber candlesticks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• On a dirty table stand scores of corresponding brass candlesticks with tallow candles for the lodgers, whose keys hang up in rows over the candles. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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