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Examples

  • I don't think the size of the candlebra is a problem -- note the second photo of the piece on a table next to a chair.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2008

  • I don't think the size of the candlebra is a problem -- note the second photo of the piece on a table next to a chair.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2008

  • The tall and beautiful mullen, which suggested one of the forms of the stately candlebra -- almost the first plant that puts forth in the spring, and amongst the first to wither -- was now to be seen marshalled in groups over the fallows, with its erect and half-dried spire hung round

    Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832

  • You look about you with wide-open eyes, and take this crowd, this ceiling, those candlebra for splendour. "

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

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  • Careful with that dripping wax!

    September 7, 2009

  • No, Vanessa, that is not how we do a Brazilian wax. My apologies, modom, Vanessa is new here.

    September 7, 2009