chandelier
- ️Wed Mar 19 2025
The aura of opulence had gone: chaises-longues and chandeliers had given way to desks and cupboards.
The room was sumptuously swathed in black fabric, hung with huge cascading black plumes that many who saw them likened to feathery chandeliers.
Floating rounds of cocktails were picked out by the glittering diamonds in the chandeliers.
Subject then to early approval of the design and the availability of funds, the plan is to replace the temporary chandeliers during the summer recess.
I noticed the slight swaying of the pendulum of the chandelier.
But of course it will take some time to replace all the chandeliers.
It is a chandelier that hangs down and not a candelabra.
We are going to set up new companies, boards, rooms, chandeliers, cigar cutters and the lot.
Would not something in the nature of chandeliers be very much more easy on the eye?
This test is a preliminary to the possible removal of such a chandelier for tests and modifications.
The basic principle was expressed by a judge in 1823 ruling that a purchaser could not reject a chandelier after a lapse of six months.
I am sure that the new chandeliers will not offend against our aesthetic sense, as the present scaffolding, which is ugly and horrible in every respect, does.
I refer to the removal of those monstrous instruments, those obtrusive obscenities, strung up on scaffolds, and that we should instead have modified chandeliers and low-light cameras with remote control.
I had one eye on the chandelier and was looking with the other eye out of the window at some "hen huts" in which the people were then living.
We know all about chandeliers.
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