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The Sconce was a nifty design by Antoni Arola for Santa & Cole Light (2005), where each panel of the lamp can be turned to create different lighting effects depending on the mood.
Luxurylaunches.com 2009
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Sconce is ugly brown covered in Colonial Red spray paint.
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Opposite _Carey's Sconce_, half a mile west of Norton, is HURST
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S. Sconce, call you it? so you would leave battering, I had rather have it a head: an you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head and insconce it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.
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After the failure of the treaty of Newport, Charles was brought from Carisbrook, which is almost in the centre of the Isle of Wight, to a small fort called Worsley Tower, which stood above Sconce Point, to the westward of the village of Freshwater.
A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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He had built a fort, which then and long afterwards bore his name-Schenken Schans, or Schenk's Sconce -- at that important point where the Rhine, opening its two arms to enclose the "good meadow" island of
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Admiral Jacob Jacobzoon, were to be sent forth from the neighborhood of the 'Boor's Sconce' -- a fort close to the city walls -- in accordance with the Italian's plan.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Admiral Jacob Jacobzoon, were to be sent forth from the neighborhood of the 'Boor's Sconce' -- a fort close to the city walls -- in accordance with the Italian's plan.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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