For bathroom decorating, a sconce adds light and good taste. From LearnThat.org.
Nor longer keep in sconce. From Wordnik.com. [A New Song, On the Renewed Threat of Invasion] Reference
One set a candle in a sconce high in the cellar wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Ferret took a torch from a nearby sconce and led the way. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The sconce is where Billy and I put things for each other. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
It was an ancient Etruscan (ph) wall sconce, I understand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007] Reference
The candle in the sconce was six paces away from the guards. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Opening the door, she turned on the sconce that lit the stairwell. From Wordnik.com. [Shiver]
That sconce was ceremonially lit for the first time by Thomas Edison. From Wordnik.com. [waterdiluted Diary Entry] Reference
Now, what you would do is, replace your outside light sconce with this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2006] Reference
The only light came, once again, from the torch in the sconce overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Of The Lion]
You simply unscrew your light bulb out of your wall sconce as it is now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2006] Reference
Oh, the scaldies call us tinker dirt and they sconce our bairns in school. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow on the Broom] Reference
I stare at the invitation and imagine the dining-room table in the sconce light. From Wordnik.com. [Angels] Reference
He put both hands on my shoulders, and looked at me by the light of the wall-sconce. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Daoud scaled the disk at the candle that rested in the sconce at the door to the pantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Side by side, they sit displayed on a scrolled wall sconce in a central hall of my home. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Jiang Stein: Mother's Day: Lucky or Cursed?] Reference
The rank petroleum lamp in the sconce burnt out and left a sickening stench upon the air. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Kat went to the dressing table, took a branch of candles and lit them at the wall sconce. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Of The Lion]
He came and sat beside her, the light from the candle-sconce polishing his head to silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Heart]
He shut the window, drew curtains over it, switched off the lighted sconce, and went up-stairs. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
It was a long green taper which had been set with three others in a gilt sconce on the further wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
The door slowly opened, and a man bearing a tallow dip in a battered sconce showed himself in the entry. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
He simply waved Ruha into the tower, then picked up a candle and lit it from one burning in a wall sconce. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The woman behind the cart shook her head, her white hair glistening in the golden glow of an amber-shaded wall sconce. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
The candle in its silver sconce that Mrs. Henson had snatched up before her flight was perilously near her flimsy dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
As Lorenzo had instructed him, the tavern keeper had put a lighted candle in a sconce near where Sordello was sitting, so that. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Kadian's eyes noticed the flickering torch in its iron sconce, and he was moving before the idea was fully formed in his head. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
There was a flare in a sconce halfway down the winding staircase; nothing had been forgotten here, even in the stresses of siege. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
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