censers

• The illumination of so many tapers striking on the shrines, censers, and pillars of polished jasper, sustaining the canopy of the altar, produced a wonderful effect; and, as the rest of the chapel was visible only by the faint external light admitted from above, the splendour and dignity of the altar was enhanced by contrast. —  Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
• Then the ceremony began again, and again the censers were swung toward us, and again a dead stop. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
• The Confucian heritage shows through in screens depicting books, piled and scattered, with scholars 'objects such as brushes, censers, vases full of allusion-laden flowers, etc, artfully arranged across eight or ten panel screens. —  Art Knowledge News
• The holy abbots, in their robes, walked under gilded canopies, the monks chanted, the censers were thrown, flags and banners were carried by seamen, lighted tapers by penitents; Saint Antonio, the patron of those who trust to the stormy ocean, was carried in all pomp through the streets; and, as the procession passed, coins of various value were thrown down by those who watched it from the windows, and, as fast as thrown were collected by little boys dressed as angels, and holding silver vessels to receive the largesses. —  Olla Podrida
• But I was now in the world of gold And then smoke ascended from the gold-tipped cigarettes as incense from censers, and Sullivan lifted his tinted glass of gin-and-angostura, and I, perceiving that such actions were expected of one in a theatrical club, responsively lifted mine, and the glasses collided, and Sullivan said Here's to the end of the great family quarrel I'm with you," said I And we sipped My father had quarrelled with his mother in an epoch when even musical comedies were unknown, and the quarrel had spread, as family quarrels do, like a fire or the measles. —  The Ghost A Modern Fantasy

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