Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of. From Wordnik.com. [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference
The senior maid ordered everyone to go back to sleep and, to emphasise the point, snuffed all the candles, even the thick night one on its pricket. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference
I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene II. Loves Labours Lost] Reference
Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
Or pricket, sore, or else sorel; the people fall a hooting. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene II. Loves Labours Lost] Reference
The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
At that he closed her mouth again, and again he pricket her with his knife, cruelly. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Jewel] Reference
I warrant thee, that when they brought him to ground thou fledst like a frighted pricket. '. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
I warrant thee, that when they brought him to the ground, thou fled'st like a frighted pricket. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that twas a pricket that the princess killed. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene II. Loves Labours Lost] Reference
And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference
There was a pricket at the top upon which the candle was stuck, and so St. Paulinus speaks of the candlesticks "which carry painted candles on their protruding spikes". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Among the varieties are the earliest form of pricket candlestick on which the candle was "stuck," the bell candlesticks, and the candlesticks which were fixed on brackets against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
Rood-lights were kept burning before the rood in medieval times, consisting either of a wick and oil in a cresset, or rood - bowl, or of a taper on a pricket in the centre of a mortar of brass, lattern, or copper. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
An altar-candlestick consists of five parts: the foot, the stem, the knob about the middle of the stem, the bowl to receive the drippings of wax, and the pricket, i.e. the sharp point that terminates the stem on which the candle is fixed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
"Tell me, my vertical pricket, whether you think Jesse H. From Wordnik.com. [Flux Tales of Human Futures]
I warrant thee that when they brought him to ground, thou fledst like a frighted pricket.”. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside that, ’twas a pricket that the princess killed. From Wordnik.com. [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference
Instead of fixing the candle on the pricket, it is permissible to use a tube in which is put a small candle which is forced to the top of the tube by a spring placed within (Cong. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
I warrant thee that when they brought him to ground, thou fledst like a frighted pricket. ". From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference
Twas not a haud credo; twas a pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene II. Loves Labours Lost] Reference
"Tegg, or pricket (Chapter XXII), saillant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
’Twas not a haud credo; ’twas a pricket. From Wordnik.com. [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference
In woodland glade, some pricket deer, or hare. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
There are the tall pricket candlesticks, superb chasses and reliquaries, altar-crosses, crosiers, shrines, censers and incense boats, crucifixes, morses for copes and medallions for sacred vessels, triptychs and polyptychs for use on the altar, plaques for book-covers, especially for the adornment of the Book of the Gospels cruets, basins, chalices, and book-binding in metal encrusted with jewels. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
To see the once fine smooth gravel walks, overgrown with grass -- the redundances of the shrubbery neglected -- the once finely painted pricket fences, rusted and fallen down -- a fine garden in splendid ruins -- the lofty ceiling of the mansion thickly curtained with cobwebs -- the spacious apartments abandoned, while the only music heard within as a substitute for the voices of family glee that once filled it, was the crying cricket and cockroaches!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington] Reference
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