There was even a silver epergne set in the center of the display.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

There were fruit and nuts and raisins in a great silver epergne, with fat cupids making love among garlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

The dinner epergne remained at chambers, and figured at the banquets there, which the Colonel gave pretty freely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

Cheapside, having invested some money in two desks, several pairs of richly-plated candlesticks, a dinner epergne, and a bagatelle-board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

He is replaced with the same regularity and indifference as fresh snuff is put into a snuff-box, or fresh flowers are set out upon the epergne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832] Reference

But the dining hall, with its mahogany-lined walls and long refectory table, was empty, the epergne of roses in the centre the only sign of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stay Through The Night]

They were arranged on an immense sheet of glass, like the trees in miniature on some table epergne, and their reflection could not be more perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

Other times, it is merely the exact word for a thing that sticks in the mind: instead of using the word “centerpiece,” one might say “epergne.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tourbillon : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Nothing would have been more difficult than to explain why it was that Pansey Cottrell should be as essential to a fashionable dinner party as the epergne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belles and Ringers] Reference

Set defiantly in the center of the jacquard tablecloth was a heavy, flamboyantly molded silver epergne, its stand supported by two Rubens-like female figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

Seen in company, and used sparingly with white flowers for epergne work, the effect is unique; and I ask those who possess it to try it in that or a similar way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Why it was called an epergne no one remotely knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The presentation took the shape of a silver epergne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Everyday Folk and Dawn] Reference

A massive gold epergne of choicest Italian art, the gift of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

Hepplewhite sideboard held two Sheffield plated candlesticks and an epergne.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Two Buckle My Shoe]

A huge epergne of gilded bronze from Thomire's studio overshadowed the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

The dinner epergne remained at chambers, and figured at the banquets there, which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

He was separated from Nan by a vast silver epergne, that fully screened her from view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Like Other Girls] Reference

To this end she stared zealously at a detail of the epergne immediately in front of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

Overpowering her dire confusion, in obedience to him, she looked at the epergne, and listened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference

That he was not opposed to the Renaissance is proved by a beautiful silver epergne in that style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

One woman on Saturday had Williams appraise a large cupid-adorned epergne centerpiece with some significant damage.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Then, on bending forward a little to glance behind an epergne, I found a face which it surprised and pleased me to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White People] Reference

The epergne was Phoebus Apollo in his chariot of the sun, with four horses galloping perpetually along the table without moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference

Thus the garbage has been cleanly laid on a fashionable epergne, and found quite to the taste of certain lovers of authentic history!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference

A tall silver epergne surmounted the mound, in the centre of which was a cut-glass basket, holding fruits, and on the sides vases of flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

I imagined, for instance, that at Belshazzar's feast, the loftiest epergne of gold, surrounded by flowers and jewels, carried the monarch's proudest possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference

A magnificient epergne of glass, with some large pearls, from Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Fair] Reference

A huge epergne of gilded bronze from Thomire’s studio overshadowed the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

"You abominable, infamous neegur! to break my epergne, which cost ninety dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson.] Reference

(i) Anti-bellum epergne for.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2] Reference

(i) Anti-bellum epergne for actress Berger.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference

"The epergne, sir?" he inquired.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference