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  • Then she looked around — at the window, the heavy winter curtains normally tied back through the warmer months fully drawn, then at the bed, bathed in the golden glow thrown by two six-armed candelabra perched on the angled bedside tables, a seven-armed cousin on the tallboy against the corridor wall, and a five-armed one standing on the chest against the opposite wall.

    The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

  • As you look closer at the trophies chiseled on this famous monument, you find there standing out most conspicuously the seven-armed candlestick carried by the Jewish captives, the _Menorah_, regarded, no doubt, by the proud victor as the most characteristic feature of the destroyed Jewish temple.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • The goblets with their sparkling contents, the snow-white linen and the dainty dishes spoke a cheery welcome to the merry guests, and the seven-armed lamp hanging from the ceiling and the silver candlesticks upon the table threw their friendly glow over the scene.

    Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith

  • Jenny lighted the seven-armed candlestick on her writing-table, took a cigarette, and held it to the flame: "Will you smoke?"

    Jenny: A Novel 1921

  • Here we must mention first of all the numerous baptismal fonts of bronze, which are decorated on their outer sheathing with representations in relief and architectural ornament, next the seven-armed candelabra, door-knobs, water-vessels (aquamanile), lecterns, especially the beautiful eagle-lecterns.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • While the servant was answering for the elder, the curtain of the doorway was drawn aside, and the younger Egyptian came in, and walked-or floated, upborne in a white cloud of the gauzy raiment she so loved and lived in-to the centre of the chamber, where the light cast by lamps from the seven-armed brazen stick planted upon the floor was the strongest.

    Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

  • The Arch of Titus celebrates victories in Judea, and in the reliefs you can see the spoils of war, including an altar and a seven-armed chandelier.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

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