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...wavings the Northern wind lightly punches me. The clouds hang like foul chandeliers and life is taking time. The drops fall on the asphalt like gr...

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...ing gigantic mirrors, and velvet brocade curtains drape man-sized windows. Tinkling chandeliers hang from the stucco-decorated ceilings. It reminds ...

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...uxurious roulette in a casino in Spain. I can almost pick glitters from the heavy, lowered chandeliers. I can practically touch the shiny wooden whe...

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...le chairs arranged around a highly polished mahogany dining table. From the ceiling hung crystal chandeliers and the centrepiece of the table was a ...

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...he carpeted floor. "What is going on in here?" She flipped on the overhead chandelier, flooding the room in blinding light. Marsh rushed at Kane, but ...

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...around the walls as tapestries. And her brother s marbles were made into shining chandeliers. They glittered like crystal, in the moonlight. The dance...

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...ght us?” the candles responded. Finally, the table turned to the beautiful chandelier in the dining room. “Chandelier, light up the house!” it said... ...ght bulbs than anyone can count.” “But there is no one to turn me on,” the chandelier replied. “And even if I could turn myself on, who would see?”... ...aucet for not pouring water. Even the little desk lamp quarreled with the chandelier. The house looked around sadly and realized that something mu... ...hers joined in: the candlesticks clinked, the forks and spoons clanked, the chandelier chimed, and even the beds jumped up and down on their legs. T...

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...pearance of men-at-arms. The talkers walked or sat about, under brilliant chandeliers, shad- owing their shadows on the polished floors, starched cuf... ...s, new hood, new leash... What’s past is prologue: At Blackfriars, the chandeliers of candles are hugely lit and light streams upon Alleyn, who i... ...ing I wish he would remove it from the dining room where he has excellent chandelier light. Of course I can VOICES FROM THE PAST 544 not find...

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...g like that. “The explosion rumbled over my head. Chunks of plaster hit me. The chandelier busted out and the crystals smashed on the hardwood. ... ...king to see Royce — there — like that.” Stepping gingerly, she considered the chandelier crystals that sparkled in the light shining down from... ...m the second floor. “Hannah told me that Royce’s first shot missed her, and hit the chandelier.” “Only two shots?” He snorted. “With her imaginati... ...ve she wouldn’t’ve killed Royce. When I went in, I saw where somebody shot out the chandelier.” While she made his drink, she said, “Who’s to s... ...d Hannah’s throat and she put a hand there. Laura Kate continued. “I saw where the chandelier had been shot out.” “It happened so fast…” Hannah sai... ...o baskets, she surveyed the foyer. The walnut wall panels needed refinishing. The chandelier wasn’t lit and half the lights in the sconces were bur... ... said, he couldn’t shoot straight. I’ve always been curious why the shooter hit the chandelier. That’s a really bad shot.” When Serpents Die ...

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... his hands folded behind his head as he stared up at the ceiling's crystal chandelier. But as soon as Kelly entered the room, Tyler leaned up on his e... ...ned his fingers through Kelly's and gently squeezed as he stared up at the chandelier again as if looking for an answer. After a moment, he turned on ... ... olive torso wet and enticing as it glistened beneath the soft seven-light chandelier of their bedroom. A familiar quiver ran through Kelly as Tyler s... ...ling, feeling disoriented and lost when he didn't see his mother's crystal chandelier. New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 229 They'd spent so m...

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...se lace topped tables. The October afternoon sun sparkled from the crystal chandeliers and reflected in the wine goblets at my place. It strained my...

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...ted no outside windows opened on to this enormous chamber. ORather dusty, chandeliers cast a gloomy yellow illumination. The library was in utter si... ...stick in the centre of the table. There was already enough light from the chandeliers overhead, but there was nothing like candlelight to give that ...

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...Lydia left that task to me.” Daniel stepped up on a stool to extinguish the chandelier above the table. One by one the flames went out, until the o... ...eetering on tiptoes on top of a rickety ladder as she strained to reach the chandelier with her feather duster. “Hannah, be careful. That ladder’s...

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...nd cutlery to the highly polished wooden dance floor in the centre. Large chandeliers hung from a high roof with fancy cornices where traditional la...

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...fond smile. They entered a marble foyer dominated by a magnificent crystal chandelier. A tall, elegant woman came down a curved stairway to their righ...

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...a garish red with expensive Persian rugs thrown around the floor, and crystal chandeliers hung randomly from the ceiling. The scratchy voice of Carus...

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...finger on the wall flooded the room with a blaze of light from the central chandelier. In this unfamiliar illumination husband and wife faced each oth... ... an evening paper. Men were lounging in rock- ing chairs under the blazing chandeliers, travellers coming and going, bells ringing, porters shuffling ...

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...he work. He plunged into this joyous intoxication. The lights in the great chandelier were extinguished; there was no one left in the house except the... ...room was resplendent with the furniture in fashion in those days—a Thomire chandelier, a carpet of Eastern design, and yellow silken hangings relieved... ... ing accustomed to volcanic eruptions of the reeling V esuvius beneath the chandelier, felt no tremor. As for the actresses, they danced the famous bo... ...ne in the dining-room, of the splen- 219 Balzac didly appointed table, of chandeliers, each fitted with forty wax-lights, of the royally luxurious de...

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...lass of the audi- ence assembled in it—amounting that evening, as I calcu- lated, to about two thousand and odd hundreds. Magnifi- cently lighted by a... ...olding little less than fourteen hundred. Every part of the house was well filled, and I had not found it easy to make my way along the back of the bo... ...to the stage and looked over the orches- tra—which was like a great grave dug for a time of pesti- lence—into the void beyond. A dismal cavern of an i...

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... consulted, every half hour, with prodigious exacti- tude. Two small glass chandeliers were suspended at equal distances between the stove and outer d... ...s was missed by both husband and child. But candles had been placed in the chandeliers and lustres, and the attendants were so far recovered from surp... ...emotest corners. The brass candle- sticks, the gilt lustres, and the glass chandeliers, whatever might be their keeping as to propriety and taste, wer... ... was very coolly lighting a pipe three feet long by a candle in one of the chandeliers; thence to Mr. Grant, who was turning over a manuscript with mu... ...red morocco, their owner held up each implement to the strong light of the chandelier, near to which he stood, and examined it with the nicest care. A...