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Перевод: sconce speek sconce


[существительное]
бра; канделябр ; подсвечник ; голова или череп; сообразительность ; отдельное укрепление; шанец ; убежище; укрытие; приют ; штраф, обычно кружка пива, за нарушение правил за столом


Тезаурус:

  1. Star candle sconce, 12.95, from the Shaker Shop
  2. Ygarth the wild cat which savaged sheep and escaped drowning made its entrance as did the Burton trick of sinking a sconce (two pints) of college beer in ten seconds ('never been beaten").
  3. Beyond the small cell the light from the sconce was barely discernible.
  4. At the foot of the stairs he shoved the torch into a wall sconce, pushed Isabel further into the gloom, and retraced his steps.
  5. It tore the sconce from its bracket before crashing to the floor, sending debris flying in all directions.
  6. She could reach the chapel from here, but it was situated in the forebuilding, beyond the staircase turret at the other end of the corridor, and, though a rushlight burned in its sconce above the steps leading to Matilda's rooms, the rest of the passage lay in heavy darkness.
  7. Multi-bracketed candelabra placed along the centre helped the sconce torches to bathe the room in light.
  8. In the light of the flaring sconce the girl could see the scar quite clearly.
  9. Chair, 209; boxes, from 28; basket, 37.95; candle sconce, from a selection.
  10. Benjamin pushed me in, locking the door behind us, and lit two sconce torches.
  11. It was now dusk but the old librarian had the sconce torches lit and gave Corbett what he had requested, a candle and a battered copy of the "Sic et Non", the brilliant satire on scholastic theology by the Parisian scholar, Abelard, who had lost his family as well as his testicles for ridiculing the theologians and then compounding his sin by falling in love with a woman.
  12. Why hadn't the man left a sconce burning?
  13. As her eyes adjusted to the darkness she saw that the dungeon was a fairly large open area, the light from the sconce barely reaching the furthest walls.

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