taper-stand

We had scarcely half admired the taper-stand and the Mercury when the carriage came for Mrs. Harris, who insisted on taking away Laura with her to the opera.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

When my husband came in, I was eager to show him the Mercury, and the lily, and the taper-stand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

She drew a little box from her pocket, and took out of it a taper-stand of chased silver.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

There were the old-fashioned boxes that had garnished his mother's toilet-table when he, a sickly child, slept in her dressing-room; the silver taper-stand which the young advocate bought for her with his first fee;

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

His first fee of any consequence, however, was expended on a silver taper-stand for his mother, which the old lady used to point to with great satisfaction, as it stood on her chimney-piece five-and-twenty years afterwards.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

His own writing apparatus was a very handsome old box, richly carved, lined with crimson velvet, and containing ink-bottles, taper-stand, etc., in silver -- the whole in such order that it might have come from the silversmith's {p. 241} window half an hour before.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

These were the old-fashioned boxes that had garnished his mother's toilet when he, a sickly child, slept in her dressing-room; the silver taper-stand which the young advocate had bought for her with his first five-guinea fee; a row of small packets inscribed with her hand, and containing the hair of those of her offspring that had died before her; his father's snuff-box and pencil-case; and more things of the like sort, recalling the "old familiar faces."

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

_en cas_ meal and the silver taper-stand; while a third drew back the great curtains of stamped velvet and let a flood of light into the apartment.

The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

With the first five-guinea fee he earned at the bar he bought a present for her -- a silver taper-stand, which stood on her mantle-piece many a year; when he became enamored of Miss Carpenter he filially wrote to consult his mother about the attachment, and to beg her blessing upon it; when, in 1819, she died at an advanced age, he was in attendance at her side, and, full of occupations though he was, we find him busying himself to obtain for her body a beautifully situated grave.

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867