The doorkeeper, a venerable man, has offered to light the great chandelier expressly for me to take my sketches in the evening for two hours together, for I shall have it a candlelight effect, when the room, already very splendid, will appear ten times more so.

The whole was in the style of the early part of this century, modified by the bad taste of the Second Empire, with much gilded carving about the doors and the corners of the big panels in which the damask was stretched, while the low, vaulted ceiling was a mass of gilt stucco, modelled in heavy acanthus leaves and arabesques, from the centre of which hung a chandelier of white Venetian glass.

It was a gala night in Curzon Street, the lords were driving up in hansoms; shouts and oaths; some seated on the roofs with their legs swinging inside; the comics had arrived from the halls; there were ladies, many ladies; choruses were going merrily in the drawing-room; one man was attempting to kick the chandelier, another stood on his head on the sofa.

The Judge was casually examining the chandelier with interest and approval.

" "We're lucky if we find a chandelier somewhere," added Billie.

We could have games like potato-sack races and a big parade and a band or two, and...." "It sounds great!" said Scraps, leaping up, grabbing a chandelier and swinging from it while bursting into song: "A party is the thing to do whenever something pleases you!

Also at least one large room where I can stir about and wave my arms without hitting the chandelier.

It is the spark that will ignite the great gas chandelier.

"I shan't let you say there's anything finer than this!" "Not even a sunset?" laughed Miss Crilly, as Nelson Randolph appeared in the doorway, "A sunset is all right in its proper place," he smiled; "but when I want to ornament a chandelier I prefer this."

I really prized that chandelier immensely.

I guess it was used in the parlor at home, to reach the chandelier with.

"And she came down with a thump that shook the chandeliers," Laura went on, ignoring the interruption, "and when Mr. Gilliganyou know he weighs only a hundred and fifty and is about half her size" "Now I know she weighs three hundred," interposed Billie again.

I have heardperhaps you haveof audiences breaking furniture, smashing chandeliers, and tarring and feathering people.

Some of the Rhenish-Westphalian iron industries have made enormous war profits, supplying iron chandeliers, stove doors, pots and pans, and other articles formerly made of brass to take the place of those commandeered for the purpose of supplying the Army with much-needed metals.

The roof springs from clustered columns, branching into an enriched groined ceiling, with a very large and embellished pendent key-stone in the centre, from which will be suspended the chandelier to light the whole of the interior.

One succeeded in unscrewing a large chandelier which hung from the centre of the front parlor, and the gas came pouring through the opening in odorous volumes, while the spoliator waddled off to the door with his prize.

Some of the shops boasted handsome cut-glass chandeliers, or Argand lamps, evidently of European manufacture; others were content with a circular frame, perforated with holes, in which all sorts of glass vessels, wine-glasses, tumblers, mustard-pots, &c., were placed, filled with oil, and having several wicks.

ainsi, comme on voit aux voûtes des celliers Les noirceurs qu'en rôdant tracent les chandeliers, On pourrait, sous les bleus pilastres, Deviner qu'un enfant de la terre a passé, A ce que le flambeau de l'homme aurait laissé De fumée au plafond des astres!

At one of Mrs. Washington's receptions, Miss McIvers, a New York belle, had such a towering coiffure that the feathers which surmounted it brushed a lighted chandelier and caught fire.

One that I visited, a glass show-room containing chandeliers priced upwards of a thousand dollars, and all varieties of fancy-wares of every description, had large mirrors at the ends of the room, covering the entire walls, and producing the grandest effect conceivable.