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Example sentences for "sconce"

Lexicographically close words:
scolex; scoliosis; scollop; scolloped; scollops; sconces; scones; scoop; scooped; scooping
  1. Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his Action of Battery?

  2. Saue thee, my most gracious King a Harts saue thee, all hats and caps are thine, and therefore I vaile: for but to thee great Sultane Soliman, I scorne to be thus put off or to deliuer vp this sconce I wud.

  3. Mrs. Dudgeon takes the sconce from the mantelshelf; blows out the candle; extinguishes the snuff by pinching it with her fingers, first licking them for the purpose; and replaces the sconce on the shelf.

  4. A candle gleaming beside her in a sconce on the wall, Desiree Lazard crouched behind a heap of powder kegs in the middle of the room.

  5. Still laughing, he shoved her aside with one great paw and replaced the light in the sconce on the wall.

  6. Nevertheless, it was a very splendid piece of sculpture in its way, and was the only thing that enlivened the room, if we except a silver sconce of three branches, with the lights which they contained.

  7. You see," and he swayed the sconce from side to side, making the curtain appear to be moving silently.

  8. Mr. Riddle raised the sconce above his head, and there burst on a sudden a shimmering flash of a thousand prismatic colours from the head of the staircase.

  9. It was absolutely bare, and empty of anything except a broken old sconce lying in a corner.

  10. Bargeton; the poet beheld her by the light of two wax candles on a sconce with a screen fitted to it, that stood before her on a round table with a green cloth.

  11. Lucien noticed an old-fashioned candle-sconce for a card-table, with an adjustable screen attached, and wondered to see four wax candles in the sockets.

  12. The two clumsy arched windows that gave upon the Place du Murier were curtainless; there was neither clock nor candle sconce nor mirror above the mantel-shelf, for Mme.

  13. The door slowly opened, and a man bearing a tallow dip in a battered sconce showed himself in the entry.

  14. The shelf on which the candle socket rests is formed by bending the lower part of the sconce at right angles as shown by the dotted line.

  15. When the socket has been riveted and holes drilled as indicated, the sconce is finished according to taste and mounted on a back of wood stained to harmonize with the color of the metal.

  16. After finishing, the sconce may be mounted on a wood back.

  17. The pattern for this sconce as shown at Plate 29A is transferred to the metal which is then cut out.

  18. There was a candle burning in her sconce and the thin yellow rays lit up the glory on her face--a glory that was encased in a newly tallied white cap.

  19. As they worked near the window, Anna sat in her corner and by the light of a candle in her little sconce made waxed ends for the men.

  20. I brot a candle in an' stuck it in th' sconce so 's I cud see 'er face.

  21. Thou shalt carry me on thy back over the water, and receive nothing but a cracked sconce for thy trouble.

  22. A sconce is a penalty for a breach of good manners at table, and is an institution that can be traced far back into the Middle Ages.

  23. If he tries to floor the sconce and fails, he has to order more beer for the table; but if he succeeds, the man who sconced him has to pay the shot and order a second tun for the table.

  24. John Girling fell to him: Ned Thewk fell to him, and the sconce of Will Burdock rang.

  25. If Ipley understands neither our music nor our intent, haply we must hold a performance on the impenetrable sconce of Ipley.

  26. Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery?

  27. 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.

  28. I had rather have it a head: an you use these blows long, I must get a sconce for my head, and ensconce it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.

  29. The sick man stared at the ceiling where the oil lamp in its sconce on the wall had made a smoky semi-circle, and where the yellow light now slept upon the whitewash within the limits of the smoked half-ring.

  30. The next time he came back to consciousness it was dark, except for a sickly burning oil lamp on a sconce fixed against a wall at a little distance.

  31. The rank petroleum lamp in the sconce burnt out and left a sickening stench upon the air.

  32. You will find it on the sconce just where I always put it," I said.

  33. The sconce is where Billy and I put things for each other.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sconce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatis; bank; barbican; barricade; barrier; bartizan; bastion; battlement; bean; brain; breastwork; brow; bulwark; crown; curtain; damages; dike; distress; dome; drawbridge; earthwork; enclosure; entanglement; escarpment; fence; fine; forfeit; forfeiture; fortification; frieze; glacis; head; headpiece; holder; loophole; mound; mulct; noddle; noggin; palisade; pallet; parapet; pate; poll; rampart; redoubt; ridge; scarp; sconce; sensation; stockade; topping; work